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u/ghostdate 1d ago
“Let’s make life horrible for a bunch of people so some of us can live decadently.”
What? No, just make life decent for all of us.
“No, no, no. They have to struggle so we can have so much that we throw perfectly good things in the trash and spend unwarranted amounts of money on nonsense.”
No, just like be a decent person.
“Can’t do that, fam. Gotta take well beyond any individual should — for my legacy!”
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u/CombatClaire 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's not half of humanity, it's the middle classes of the imperial core countries who are complicit in imperialism and told to keep their heads down and don't question it lest they lose their comfortable lifestyles. They're the assholes. Even the "friendly" ones show their true colours when their comfort is at stake.
Spend more time talking to proletarian people, and especially proletarian immigrants, and you'll see that most people are generally compassionate
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u/platypusthief0000 1d ago
I agree 100%, except it's not just half of humanity, it's far more than that. In my experience 99% of people are susceptible to propaganda, and besides the people that don't try to critically break it apart, most people just start regurgitating the talking points of the propaganda.
Also, besides hate, apathy vastly helps malicious actors perpetuate hateful narratives, even if people aren't hateful themselves they still end up giving power to hate by giving it an ear and not questioning it, it shows other people around them that such hate is ok and acceptable, such silence normalizes it.