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Honestly sometimes one can become like this when they live with too much comfort. It’s not always trauma that leads to such extreme chauvinism, but rather a lack of lived struggle.
Yeah a lot of these chuds are suburban white boy dorks, probably lived fairly comfortable middle class lives l. Also Probably why a lot of these people are gamers, I’d say 70 percent of them are obsessed with video games and are the first to talk about their steam library.
Just putting a thought out there.
i think it’s a mistake to downplay the psychological damage that suburbia and american culture does to people.
Pretty much all the school shooters were middle-upper middle class suburbanites who were “bullied” in school at some point. But they can’t even deal with the rugged individualist ideology they love so much otherwise they’ll shut up and deal with it like the rest of us instead of shooting up their school
This is true. I think most of us who weren’t at the absolute top of the popularity pyramid were bullied in school difference is most of us didn’t decide to hurt people over itm
The selfish nature of capitalism and subsequent decay of empathy dosnt contradict how I alluded to the chauvinism and evil that can come from living a relatively comfortable life compared to others. That comfort is the material reality that creates many to be passive in the face of mass death and the possibility that organized human life may cease to function on a global scale in the coming decades. You can jump through whatever epistemological hoops you’d like, it won’t negate this material reality. Yes, oh the rich suffer too because they are under capitalism and conditioned as well but theres a reason communist of the past have sent people to hard labor or to the countryside .
Don’t know what you mean by this counteracting force and so on with cis white men but as a cis white man myself who has had many peers who are the same and have met my fair share of true racist and other kinds of brutes I can tell you there’s people who hold those beliefs because they what want to protect what they see as a way of life and power not being “left with with mental scars of capitalism” as if they didn’t suffer those scars much less then others who aren’t white and or poorer. There’s all kinds of reasons for racism and other kinds of bigotry some of it is indeed alienation and disenchantment, but don’t underestimate the simple greed and hatred that living in a comfortable bubble based off of exploitation brings.