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Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social |
I am reading Hannah Arendt right now and she makes this point. Over and over. With a freakin hammer. There are a LOT OF PEOPLE in the world very eager to pick a group and blame it for their problems, esp when they don't have a strong grasp of where those problems really come from.
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Cathi Harris
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I think it's because it's simpler and easier: You don't have to question your own possible motives or biases, you don't have to think about complicated systemic issues - you just need to blame/hate/eliminate X vulnerable group. It's all their fault.
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Freya Blekman
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Which Hannah Arendt book are you reading? I’m presently reading “Goodbye to Berlin” by Isherwood but need something next
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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Sometimes those problems are from themselves. I listen to a personal finance podcast that mostly focuses on middle/upper income people (this is key, not Dave Ramsey shaming poor people shit) and it's wild how often people don't grasp they are the problem.
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Liza Mazel
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I also go back to Alice Miller a lot, and ponder the emphasis on childhood "discipline" (read: punishment) and obedience among the biggest voting bloc for Trump, the white evangelicals. Targets are selected at a systemic level and that is sociology. But also, abused children grow up and hit down.
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maggie savarino
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yep.
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Paul Philion
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There is special bigoted magical thinking tied with racism and entitlement at the core of the "American Dream": If you're not living the dream, if must be *their* fault. I assume it's based on classism as a tool of political power, filtered thru US's history of chattel slavery and systemic racism.
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