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You don't have to see yourself as a high officer. You just have to imagine that you will be restored to your deserved state. In that state you are slightly bett
by jfengel 1y ago
You don't have to see yourself as a high officer. You just have to imagine that you will be restored to your deserved state. In that state you are slightly better than average, and only those who are morally defective suffer. (Those are the ones who are now unjustly keeping you from succeeding on your merits.)
The high officials are the truly great ones who have restored the natural order. You don't need that. You just require being recognized as somewhat better than most.
- Larrikin 1y ago[flagged]
- Hikikomori 1y agoRacists were just temporarily embarrassed by the civil war.
- e40 1y agoWere they? If so, embarrassed about what? Losing it?
- Hikikomori 1y agoI think they and right wingers are only embarrassed by losing, it explain their behaviour.
- janice1999 1y agoYou reminded me of the Lyndon B Johnson quote which seems more relevant that ever. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
- AnthonyMouse 1y agoThe trouble with this quote is that it's too easy to misinterpret it exactly in favor of the people it's criticizing. Racism is a system for pitting poor white people and poor black people against each other. But the perpetrators are not the people in the other tribe, they're the people telling you that there should be separate tribes.
- GolfPopper 1y agoBacon's Rebellion [1] in colonial Virginia, 1676-7, was a a multi-race and cross-class uprising against the colonial government and the aritocratic planter class. The rebellion's failure was followed by measures that served to alienate the poor white population from the enslaved black population. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion