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ProfessorPlum

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3. The corollary to this is - how do you get people to become "A-ok"ers.

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Mon May 14, 2018, 07:00 AM

May 2018

And you do that by demonizing the poor. Talking about how diseased and criminal they are. Whipping up fear of the other. Racism. Fear of immigrants. Xenophobia.

All the while celebrating the rich, who after all, wear nice suits and ties and always have their nails trimmed. Never mind the millions/billions they are stealing in white collar crime. Just hate the poor.

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The Two Ways to Look at Injustice - the Underdog and the Overdog [View all] ProfessorPlum May 2018 OP

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The corollary to this is - how do you get people to become "A-ok"ers. ProfessorPlum May 2018 #3

The two ways from different view: Renaissance and Enlightenment principles Hortensis May 2018 #4