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[–] [email protected] 27 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There's nothing to understand. It's about hate and fear. Conservatives, specifically the alt-right, uses pre-existing prejudices to whip fear into their followers so that they get distracted.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

You can change this to whatever out-group they have chosen:

  • Trans-people
  • autistic people specifically
  • LGBT people
  • neurodivergent people
  • gay people specifically
  • muslims
  • non-white people
  • black people specifically
  • Catholics (if you're protestant)
  • Protestant (if your Catholic)
  • left handed people

The list literally goes on. All so that their followers get distracted from the people who are picking their pockets.

[–] ininewcrow 17 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

As far as I'm concerned, the only minority group of people we should all actively persecute is the ultra wealthy class of people who represent a small fraction of the global population yet control overwhelmingly all the wealth in our civilization. They would rather watch the world burn than in allowing anyone to create any kind of equitable society to share even a fraction of the wealth in our world.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

Class warfare >>>>> Culture warfare

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

and people who use your and you're interchangeably... right?