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Under the old rules, the obligation of the nobility was to their own people. Even if they couldn't stand the unwashed peasants, that's where a huge portion of their power came from, or the risk to their station. They certainly didn't gain anything from serving foreign peasants who were owned by a rival foreign nobility. So, a pre-ellis island American WASP nobility had part of their interests and vulnerability tied up in their own White commoner class, and they did things like restrict all movies with a certain set of moral codes, so that the material their peasants watched wasn't detrimental to said peasants, and by extension, wasn't detrimental to them. Even if the Americans WASP nobles despised the common American, out of self interest they managed them. Tucker is of that old WASP nobility, and even if has no real love for common White Americans, he is behaving like he does. I can see a possibility that his motive is the old motive.