British upper-class contempt for workers rendered them invisible as fellow whites

Evidence

Curzon was taken to see this dantesque exhibit. He watched with interest those hundred naked figures disporting themselves in the steam. ‘Dear me!,’ he said, ‘I had no conception that the lower classes had such white skins.’ Curzon would deny the authenticity of this story but loved it none the less” (pp. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2374

Categorization

• XREF: A vivid instance of race-thinking applied to class within England — connects to Arendt’s claim that racism bridges class division.