It’s not economic anxiety, it’s people who’ve always been cruel finding a guy that makes fun of all the people they hate and worshipping him for it.
I feel like that ‘economic anxiety’ shit is given to them too much of an excuse. Sure, it may agitate things, but these are by and large people who were already innately hostile to anyone different.
It’s sad, but that’s what it is.
And? Adverse material conditions have been a thing long before capitalism, too.
I’m not going to watch the video, I’m very well aware that racial abuse and fascism is awful.
I’m frankly wary of speech that writes people off as “inherently” bad as basically being eugenicists by another name. If someone doesn’t accept that material conditions are at least the most significant cause of most social behaviours, then I don’t see why they give a shit about collectivism, just accept that capitalism is “innate” human nature and call it a day.
We absolutely agree on this.