Isn't it ironic that Repubs are so concerned with everybody else's

[usonian]

3. Projection, as always.

But I think it relates to “privilege” broadly.

Rich white folks (and some others) live by privilege, usually unearned, as in skin color or inherited wealth. They want to preserve it, so they convince poorer white folks that everyone else is robbing their privilege, hence the bullshit CT about white displacement, extermination or whatever.

Of course, many benefitted from denying others equal treatment. Need I mention slavery, and other forms of discrimination? Even when the perceived (and endlessly reinforced) loss is negligible, as in “immigrants stealing jobs” …. That nobody else wants … the propaganda blows it up into major trauma.



And the rich demand their privilege. Droit du seigneur!

Buddhists call this “fundamental darkness,” the idea that anyone is more or less equal than another, that another life has less dignity than another, and unfairness; that rules apply to you and not to me. My feelings, anyway. We are all different but equally human. People can’t grasp that, no doubt through societal messages propagated by the culture of wealth and privilege, or even flawed religious beliefs, i.e. that some people are binary good or bad, rather than being capable of either good or harm, a choice made every moment in our lives.

Think of it as “binning”, a substitute for thought and taking responsibility, choosing to blame others for one’s own fears, weaknesses, secret naughty desires and poor choices.

Some favorite graphics:

On our societal values.





That’s all for now.