Many people just hate that.
That is usually about as far as I can get before many start jumping down my throat, and accusing me of all sorts of unpleasant things. Which would have made my point, if they had ever let me get to it. Of course not all the rich landowning white men were smart or fair. And not all of them were educated or tolerant of others either. But the majority of them were just about keeping others out of their shorts.