I spent 35 years of my life trying to ingratiate myself to beautiful middle-class/upper-class libs. Cuz it’s what my parents did, and it’s what television and the media taught me to do. It was such a massive waste of time and emotional energy, and I had to do therapy to unstick myself from the arguably not that bad resentment.

I’m also thinking of all the abusive people I’ve known, rich people have more often been the ones I hear stories about over the years hurting other people or just being utter dickheads. Sometimes a dickhead is born normal but uses their dickhead powers to become rich. And sometimes rich decent people turn their back on their shitty posh family and become a teacher or something.

I’ve had a lot of weird advice in my live to be wary of certain non specific groups, like certain body types, racial groups, regional areas, or genders. And it’s always been pointless and terrible. We all know now that that shit ain’t materialist.

I’m just saying, I wish people told me as a kid to be careful or rich and/or powerful people. It would have been really helpful growing up.

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My impression is that people usually are taught to fear the rich and privileged. It’s just that they’re also taught to handle that fear by cowering before them and sucking up to them and being grateful for every “opportunity” (table scrap) that “comes from” (is gatekept by) them. Fear of the powerful is the core of bootlicking behavior. There’s a reason Machiavelli said

    Is it better to be loved than feared or better to be feared than loved? Well, one would like to be both; but it’s difficult for one person to be both feared and loved, and when a choice has to be made it is safer to be feared

    This is how people with power preserve their power. They desire to inspire fear and cowardice and bootlicking behavior in those at their mercy. And they keep their “subjects” (victims) divided and conquered because the fear must be maintained and under no circumstances can solidarity-based mass movements be allowed to form against them.