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submitted 2 weeks ago by crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

it's got to do with presumed entitlement ( altering one's identity's frame-of-"rightful"-reference ), then with prejudice:

IF I have privilege that those homeless-scum/underclass lives don't,

AND my privilege is inherent, or earned, or bestowed-by-G-D,

THEN their inferiority is inherent, or earned, or put-on-them-by-god.

ergo, prejudice's justification, & only through protecting-itself can prejudice gain greater significance..

( I'm saying this as a guy whose 1st homeless experience was in about 1983, & I've earned 7+y of outright homelessness )

it's definitely identity-rooted, & it's definitely segregation-of-validity-to-the-privileged unconscious-mind mechanism.

As others have pointed-out, through the ages, prejudice is often attacking others out of fear for one's own weak/flawed "validity"..

so, attacking the "nonvalid" in order to protect the "validity" of the "superiors..

I don't think any mechanism more-involved than that is required, to understand it being normal all 'round the world..

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