He says class divide, media being controlled, and the poor being made worse like its something that only happens in the first Deus Ex, but HR literally had an AI made to monitor people and manipulate footage to control what people said and spin whatever view was asked if her. You even have a mission in MD where you find out a military accident was covered as an aug hijacking a plane. HR was about the golden age and had plenty of references to the rich buying talent (the woman who had to buy a chip for charisma just to compete with other businessmen) or forcing people to get augs to keep them in debt by their need for neuropozyne (the sex traffickers)

Also his line about the racism metaphor not working because "augs aren't born that way" is answered multiple times. People were forced to augment or be fired (Chikane says it about the man who ruined his leg) and were then fired after. And many people just didn't want to live without crippling injuries, ajd one older guy in a side mission wanted to be able to keep up with his grandkids in his old age. I think Yahtzee's missing a huge amount of reasons people would get these augs.

And with augs being forgotten in the first game, there has to be the fear first. Augs were considered the future of mankind, so you need an event to make them feared, hated, then forgotten