When the Irish underclass in New York City – themselves indentured servants, or descended from them – brutalized black slaves and freedmen…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the serfs of Russian Eastern Europe, themselves slaves in all but name, terrorized and murdered their Jewish neighbors…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the “white trash” of the deep south and all over the country – a pretty hopeless underclass even before the Civil War – joined the Klan…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Germans decided that “subhumans” – Gypsies, Gays, the disabled, Slavs, and of course Jews – were a useful kick toy to exorcise their anger after the miseries of World War 1, Versailles and back-to-back economic collapses…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When people in Los Angeles took our their rage at a catastrophically unjust system on…themselves…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
…in no case did they get any more justice, more freedom, more prosperity, more equality. Just the opposite, in fact. “Passing injustice on to others to get more justice for oneself” is batting .000 through all of history. At best it’s a record of horror and misery; at worst, it consolidates power in the hands of those who benefit from horror and misery (see “demigogues”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Freedom, justice and equality aren’t like toilet paper aisles, with a finite supply to be doled out, or fought over, with haves and have nots. They are a store that can be – needs to be – continually added onto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anger is justified. It can be a powerful motivator. And one thinks you, pliural, would have figured this out after 2016, where leading with hatred and oppression got answered with people reacting to being hated and oppressed, to vote for a president you all find hateful and oppressive…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
…are you seeing a pattern here, yet? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For those of you in the “Urban Progressive Privilege” set who are trying to spread the injustice around, rather than eliminate it? You think you’re helping?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
See the list above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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