Instructions for aspiring bigots.

[Deep13]

If you are trying to become a bigot, the following steps will be helpful in helping you accomplish your goal of being a hateful ignoramus. Simply substitute "group X" with any racial, ethnic, religious or sexual out-group or gender you wish to hate.

1. Assume you are morally, culturally, physically or intellectually better than group X. This superiority is not situational, but arises from innate nature. Since the superiority is a meaningless term in evolutionary science, assume it was bestowed by a divine creator. Use junk science if necessary. Have several sound bites ready to ward off criticism of this assumption.

2. Assume your group's dominance over group X was ordained by god. Alternatively, assume that your own subjugation (including imaginary subjugation) by group X is contrary to god's intention. Reinforce the point by spreading lies about group X.

3. Any interference in the aforementioned divine social order is an offense against god and must be prevented. Take personal offense when group X refuses to be subjugated. Also, label those who sympathize with group X as sinners, traitors or crazy. Keep your children away from such people and never have an honest talk with them. Blame the problems of the day on group X even if their innocence can be conclusively demonstrated.

4. For your bigotry to be successfully maintained over generations, it is also necessary to assume or at least pretend that the group X will actually benefit from oppression by being able to take advantage of you superior religion, protection or cultural sophistication. Alternatively, if you seek to exterminate group X, insist it is in self defense and divinely mandated. It is helpful to think of group X as sub-human and as some kind of pest.

Unless I am missing something, this should send you on your way to suffering through many years of paranoia.

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[Deep13]

2. Not really.

Wealth is situational, not innate. We tend to be against irresponsible behavior by the powerful and think the wealth should not be concentrated in the hands of a select few. So it is really the behavior of the ruling class we tend to oppose.

[fascisthunter]

3. the rich wouldn't be as rich as they are if we all did

:nopity:


most in this country actually admire those who work their asses off to become rich, but of late we all are seeing that those at the top don't get there by working hard but instead get there because of unethical means and they were born into it... what percentage of the rich do you suppose earned it?

And what's even more pathetic is those born into wealth delude themselves into believing they earned it, and yet don't want to pay their fair share in taxes, to the country that made it possible for them...

[Terry in Austin]

4. Enjoy your stay

:nopity:

[Stellabella]

6. No. People with money aren't discriminated against. And it's spelled 'hypocrisy'.

The 'rich people' are the people with power.

Sheesh.

[tjwash]

9. You got that backwards, big guy.

"Dont we do this with rich people?"

No...but they tend to do that with us.

As a matter of fact, when the feces hits the rotary blades, and a bunch of the upper crust lose all of their billions, they tend to throw themselves off of the top of skyscrapers and bridges. They have so much contempt and loathing for those below their social strata, that they would rather be DEAD than upper-middle class, or even lower-upper class.

Welcome to DU.

[rvablue]

10. You really are a piece of work, aren't you Dan?

Yes, the poor little rich people.....

So, so discrimated against.

I think we need to pass legislation. It's gone on too long and we must protect the rights of the rich!!

Being that you self-identified as "middle class" in another one of your freeptastic posts, I really have to hand it to you, that you take the time out to protect those with so much more privilege, opportunity and cash than yourself.

:sarcasm:

[Deep13]

11. I've never understood the impulse...

...to stand up for people who don't need us to stand up for them.

[HughBeaumont]

13. Get with the program, will ya?

They're going to be RICH . . . someday.

They're going to run their own corporations . . . someday.

And us DFH Democrats must not tamper with their hypothetical success by taxin' them rich people that the freeps plan to be part of someday!

:sarcasm: :rofl:

[Deep13]

14. The goal of conservatives is to become the oppressors...

...rather than securing fair treatment for everyone, I guess. :eyes:

Who said he did not want to rise above his class but to rise with his class? I want to say it was Debbs, but I really don't remember.

[TCJ70]

5. So only people who believe in a higher power can be bigots.

Hrm...

[Deep13]

8. Well, I'm speaking generally, of course. (edit)

Still, it has been my experience and my understanding based on history that most bigotry relies on some kind of assumption about how the world is "supposed" to be. And if that plan cannot be based on any scientific reason, it ends up being based on religious or some other dogma. The same arguments about nature. tradition and how society is supposed to be that are now used to oppress homosexuals were once used to justify slavery and segregation.

On Edit:

One example in popular circulation is American exceptionalism. It is the idea that by nature America is destined to be the leading nation on earth, to be a moral example to everyone and to deserve the lion's share of the spoils. The whole concept of destiny, of course, implies a divine plan.

[me b zola]

Smells like my wing nut bil

He'd be rich, don't ya know, if the liberals would only get off of his neck. Meanwhile he lives in our basement, pays us just barely enough to cover his costs even though he makes 30k/year, and dreams of creating a business overseas where he can use near slave wages to make his "millions". :puke:


edited to say that this was directed at reply #1

[me b zola]

7. dupe/delete

[Deep13]

12. "assume that your own subjugation (including imaginary subjugation)"

I just want to clarify what I meant here. I am mostly refering to imagined oppression or grievances. For example, the memes that "the Jews" control the media or that racial or ethnic minorities are destroying our society by committed crimes or using welfare. Essentially, it is a way to blame the victim. I was not refering to cases of actual oppression by bigoted in-groups.

[Deep13]

15. Shameless, self-serving kick.

:kick: