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One thing the new government did in post revolutionary Iran was cater to the shallow end of the gene pool. Poor, uneducated and underemployed people were given
by rdouble 14y ago
One thing the new government did in post revolutionary Iran was cater to the shallow end of the gene pool. Poor, uneducated and underemployed people were given jobs in the police or other bureaucratic positions where they could lord power over the educated middle classes who they already resented.
- infinitone 14y agoUnless you have a source, that's just plain bull to feed hate. Even in western countries you typically have uneducated/underemployed people take the cop/security jobs... you don't see a PhD or even a Bsc doing a cop job.
- BerislavLopac 14y agoNo it's not. a) I lived in a society that did precisely that, and still does it to an extent, and b) go watch Persepolis.
- lingben 14y agoNot just that, they actually removed educated people and replaced them with ignorant loyalists. for example: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/08/head-of-iranian-institute-fired.html http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/08/head-of-ir...