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Strongly agree; the "just world fallacy" types are frequently right-wing. Seeing a disruption of inequality is offensive to them because they view it as a refut
by cryoshon 11y ago
Strongly agree; the "just world fallacy" types are frequently right-wing. Seeing a disruption of inequality is offensive to them because they view it as a refutation of the social Darwinism they worship at the church of capitalism.
It doesn't matter if the right wingers are poor or struggling themselves: rather than envisioning a world in which they don't have to struggle as hard, they envision a world in which they have broken beyond their struggle somehow and are now being bled by the "taker" leeches as a result of left wing political goals being met. The sad side of this is that many of these people have zero chance of breaking beyond their struggle specifically because there is not wider political support for redistributing resources.
The fall into poverty is an act of justice in this perverse mindset. Poverty is the result of bad choices of the individual in their view. Of course we can dismiss this kind of simplification as childish (the result of an intentionally crafted propaganda campaign designed to cause people to vote against their interests), but there are millions of people who will have hateful fire in their eyes if you deny that poverty is avoidable for any person with the proper magical choices.