Clearly overt discrimination against minorities has decreased.
   The scapegoatism that keeps the work force fearful, obedient and submissive has been downshifted from ethnic minorities, gays and women to the poor.
  As social equality has allowed some groups to rise on the social economic ladder, a covert subtle shift has occurred pushing the poor further down the ladder into deeper poverty and discrimination largely based on appearance.
   A once-a-year neo-Nazi demonstration makes the headlines and sells newspapers, but the growing everyday hate problem in North America is hatred of the impoverished.
  This is what the fake "progressive" liberal left has wrought with its identity politics. Social equality does not stop the increasing economic disparities, the class war on the lower classes. Genuine leftists know it must work the other way around, as it does in the Scandinavian nations. Economic equality creates social equality.