Classism is so terrible and harmful. A lot of people want homeless people to just drop dead in silence. They can’t even share a space with them, and don’t dare homeless people ask for help.
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It’s interesting how “racism” & “classism” & “sexism” are actually 3 permutations of the exact same thing…
sexism: the male class’s prejudice against female-class’s being able to be valid.
racism: the skin-appearance-class “x”'s prejudice against “y” and “z” skin-appearance-class being able to be valid.
classism: the “n” class’s prejudice against the “inferiors” whom they are totally-dependent-on, being able to be have validity of their own.
( I’ve thus-far earned 7y, min, outright homeless, & therefore have studied unconscious-mind’s prejudices, in me & others )
factional identity is a scam.
I think the only ultimate level move is to either identify with Souls/Continuums/CellsOfG-D xor to identify with the entire world’s lives, xor to identify with the entire world’s human-category-lives.
Anything smaller than that & the prejudice is going to shim itself into one’s identity, ego, & life, making one’s life into prejudice’s puppet…
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Hatred of the poor is universal phenomenon that cuts across all cultures, and yet does not even have a name. The closest we have is “classism”, but this is something different. This isn’t a preference or a bias, people go out of their way to abuse the poor. Abusing the poor fills some kind of emotional need.
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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