So imagine existing in a culture where hate and fear of out-groups is a large part and now imagine that you’re also part of one of those out-groups but less hated than the main out-groups.
It’s a survival technique:
“Pwease accept us, we’ll still join you in hating the other groups that you do, just please don’t hate me specifically.”
Welcome to the fucked-up and confusing world of human socialising politics and morality.
See also: Jewish volunteers in the Nazi ghettos, anti-immigrant immigrants who just got their citizenship, and the whole of the working class when the media-asset-owning parasite class doesn’t want the attention.
I’m broadly in favour of humans, but man we suck in stupid ways.
So imagine existing in a culture where hate and fear of out-groups is a large part and now imagine that you’re also part of one of those out-groups but less hated than the main out-groups.
It’s a survival technique:
“Pwease accept us, we’ll still join you in hating the other groups that you do, just please don’t hate me specifically.”
Welcome to the fucked-up and confusing world of human socialising politics and morality.
See also: Jewish volunteers in the Nazi ghettos, anti-immigrant immigrants who just got their citizenship, and the whole of the working class when the media-asset-owning parasite class doesn’t want the attention.
I’m broadly in favour of humans, but man we suck in stupid ways.