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American Ruling-Class Ideology

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Twain was one of the most outspoken critics of “American ruling-class ideology”. He wrote a series of articles protesting discrimination against Chinese immigrants and exposing police brutality in San Francisco. Although the crimes of the wealthy were untouched, the poor were brutalized by the police merely for the crime of being poor. “I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature,” he wrote in 1868, “but I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for wrongs thus done to him.”
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