In Reply to: Several years ago, a sociologist wrote a book called posted by Gainsborough on September 20, 2025 at 00:20:30
This was one of the first things I noticed in the US, and the context in which I noticed this was the way working people were reacting to teachers, who had, and still do, some union earned advantages as workers. What I noticed was that other folks were not saying "those are good working conditions, I want them too" but instead they were saying "how come those people have rights that I don't. They shouldn't have them either".
At the time I thought, how can you build a labor movement when that's how the working class approaches rights.
Now I'm more like how can you build a thing good for anyone when people's gut level instinct is not to raise themselves up but tear others down.
So my questions is why? Where does this vindictiveness comes from? Why do people react in this manner *even when* the distinction is not driven by race? IOW, a quewtion I keep asking myself apparently, regardless of where I'm living at the time: "what the f*cK is wrong with people?"