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Resentment is a virus


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2020 Jan 1, 10:29am   1,704 views  28 comments

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Political polarization of the US and Europe is a resentment feedback loop. Resentment's effects cause new resentments, and so resentment propagates itself like a virus.

Common sources of resentment include publicly humiliating incidents such as accepting negative treatment without voicing any protest; feeling like an object of regular discrimination or prejudice; envy/jealousy; feeling used or taken advantage of by others; and having achievements go unrecognized, while others succeed without working as hard.


In America right now, NPR is Resentment Radio and the NYT is Resentment News. The large majority of the stories in both publications are dedicated to the resentments nurtured by gays, women, blacks, and illegals.

This creates counter-resentments in ordinary people who feel that they are now the object of regular discrimination which they may not even speak about.

Where there were no actual Nazis or racists, they are being created by repeating those false accusations over and over ad nauseum. Thus, NPR and the NY Times and the like are the very causes of racism and the general trend to the right in politics.

Most people just want to be accepted. Unfounded accusations of "racism" and unjustified praise for all minorities no matter what they do will inevitably create resentment.

There are many bible stories of brothers in which one was favored and the other or others not, leading to resentment and then to murder, or to selling one's brother into slavery in Egypt, for example. There is a lot of truth in the bible even if you look at it only metaphorically.

In Europe right now, the support for real right-wing parties increases exactly in proportion to mass illegal immigration, which increases resentment among the general population who suffer lower wages and Islamic terrorism and then are called "racist" or even prosecuted for merely talking about it. This mass illegal immigration is in turn supported by childless woman politicians like Angela Merkel and shadowy figures like George Soros who donate heavily to NGO's (Non-Government Organizations) which encourage ever more illegals to go to Europe. They support it out of resentments they have nurtured their whole lives.

The Koran itself is an instruction manual for cultivating resentment. The majority of verses are complaints about being treated unfairly and rejected by non-Muslims who refuse to accept the "truth" of Islam. The Muslims want to be loved, but are not. They are not loved exactly because their religion is about resentment. And so the complaints of rejection are proven correct and resentment builds on itself in a feedback loop, until it breaks out in the extremely familiar slaughter of random innocent people by Muslims. These slaughters will happen as long as the Koran is taught.

Buddhism, just the opposite of Islam, instructs its followers to drop their resentments and be happy:

1. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is
founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man
speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel
follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.

2. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is
founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man
speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a
shadow that never leaves him.

3. "He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,"--in those
who harbour such thoughts hatred will never cease.

4. "He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,"--in those
who do not harbour such thoughts hatred will cease.

5. For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by
love, this is an old rule.

6. The world does not know that we must all come to an end here;--but
those who know it, their quarrels cease at once.


Resentment is the evil thought which creates the world of pain.

Every single bitter accusation of "racism" or of being a "Nazi" creates exactly what it claims to be against. If you really want to end racism, then stop talking about it.

WALLACE: Black History Month, you find …

FREEMAN: Ridiculous.

WALLACE: Why?

FREEMAN: You’re going to relegate my history to a month?

WALLACE: Come on.

FREEMAN: What do you do with yours? Which month is White History Month? Come on, tell me.

WALLACE: I’m Jewish.

FREEMAN: OK. Which month is Jewish History Month?

WALLACE: There isn’t one.

FREEMAN: Why not? Do you want one?

WALLACE: No, no.

FREEMAN: I don’t either. I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

WALLACE: How are we going to get rid of racism until …?

FREEMAN: Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man. And I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman. You’re not going to say, “I know this white guy named Mike Wallace.” Hear what I’m saying?


While creating racists and Nazis is very good for the $$$ funding $$$ of, say, the Southern Poverty Law Center, it is very bad for all of all in the long run.

Resentment is an illness. We all need to avoid the sources of infection, like NPR and the NY Times. Simply do not listen, do not subscribe. If you work there, you should quit.

The world will be a much happier and more peaceful place without the deliberate cultivation of resentment.

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1   Patrick   2020 Jan 1, 11:11am  

Sure, inspired by continuous left-wing resentment.

That's the whole point.
2   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2020 Jan 1, 11:26am  

Still looking over my shoulder at the ATM for nazi’s, white nationalists, etc.
3   Entitlemented   2020 Jan 1, 11:33am  

Your summary also filled in gaps to my observations. I agree that accusations and resentment are harming our societies.

A very clear thinking moment by Patrick - Thanks very much - and Happy New Year!
4   Ceffer   2020 Jan 1, 12:34pm  

Translate your petty, childish resentments and complete lack of ethics and morals into big free shit perks and sanctioned criminal behavior! It's the Great Socialist Paradise creepy crawler power grab!
5   mell   2020 Jan 1, 12:49pm  

Freeman is cool. Remember that interview.
6   marcus   2020 Jan 1, 1:43pm  

Patrick says
In America right now, NPR is Resentment Radio and the NYT is Resentment News. The large majority of the stories in both publications are dedicated to the resentments nurtured by gays, women, blacks, and illegals.


Funny. Since I don't have your bias, I see this close to never. When it does happen I notice, especially since I have heard you talking about it. It's quite rare. And even then, all that I'm really noticing is a support for gay that seems a little out of proportion to their percentage of the population. I'm serious, I listen to NPR a lot when I'm driving, and it's usually very straightforward news, of informational about something going on in government or about the arts (movies or books or artists). Yes, themes could fit under an umbrella about "diversity' in perhaps a disproportionate amount of the time, I notice and would prefer a little more balance, but I'm not triggered by it.

Same for the NYT. I do see are resentment there, but it's from people that truly believe Trump is the worst thing that ever happened to our country.

You're here (AS ALWAYS) defending that that is not the case, possibly becasue you are right, or other wise it might be becasue your ego is causing you to defend your vote.

Everything I have heard from certain people on this forum is constant resentment going back to 5 minutes after Obama was elected President. .It helps at least partially to explain how Trump was even elected in the first place.

If resentment is the virus you describe, any close to objective person can see see that a much higher percentage of what Sean Hannity talks about, as well as many others on Fox has been designed to stir resentment. This explains so much about Trump.

I've heard people on this forum gladly admitting to this kind of thinking (below). Your side is far more motivated by resentment.





or:





or:






SO I guess right wing nuts aren't the only ones that see the other side as motivetaed by resentement or even hate.

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7   marcus   2020 Jan 1, 2:03pm  

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No objective rational liberal ever claimed that all Trump voters or even most are racist.

But did racism make the difference in his being elected ? Obviously yes, considering how close it was in places like Wisconsin and Michigan.

"I'm sure some are fine people"

It's well documented from exit polls that working class whites put Trump in office. Were they motivated just by racism ? Of course not. But something got many of their resentments fired up enough to get their vote out enough to win in places where it was assumed Hillary would easily win.
8   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2020 Jan 1, 2:25pm  

marcus says
:
No objective rational liberal ever claimed that all Trump voters or even most are racist.

But did racism make the difference in his being elected ? Obviously yes, considering how close it was in places like Wisconsin and Michigan.

"I'm sure some are fine people"

It's well documented from exit polls that working class whites put Trump in office. Were they motivated just by racism ? Of course not. But something got many of their resentments fired up enough to get their vote out enough to win in places where it was assumed Hillary would easily win.


Name ONE that you personally know.
9   Patrick   2020 Jan 1, 2:41pm  

TrumpingTits says
Patrick says
which they may not even speak about.


But they are starting to express itself by people in the form of voting for Trump in the US and Boris in the UK. The Left screaming about how these many former Obama & Labour voters are now 'racists!' (and always have been) proves that.


Exactly!

Trump was elected to a large degree because of the relentless and baseless accusations of "racism".

And again, people felt they may not even speak about it, which is why the polling showed Trump behind Hillary when he was really ahead of her. Everyone knows better than to risk their jobs or perhaps even physical violence from leftists.

But at the ballot box, they felt safe enough to indicate that they are truly sick of the 24/7 accusations of "racism".

Trump was elected by the political left, not the right.
10   marcus   2020 Jan 1, 3:26pm  

Patrick says
Trump was elected to a large degree because of the relentless and baseless accusations of "racism".


Oh I see. They weren't racist, they were sick of being called racist.

Just to be clear, if someone says that Trump used race messages, that would appeal to racists, that is equivalent of accusing everyone everyone that likes Trump of being racist?

It's had for me to understand this . Really, I don't get it.

When people complain about Dems politicians appealing to lazy people that want free shit, why is it that I never feel they are saying that I want free shit ? THat it was an accusation about me personally ?

By your logic, shouldn't I be pissed off that people are accusing me of preferring democrats becasue I'm a lazy bum that doesn't want to work and wants a bunch of free shit ?
I've never thought or felt that such a accusation was being levelled at me personally. And even those that do suggest that as a government worker, I am in that boat, I don't care, I know the value of my work, and how hard I work.

Hmmm.

Now that I think about it, maybe you all are right about Trump and his 4D chess. He played a racist message, knowing he would be called on it by the libs, and knowing that not only would all the racists that he was appealing to be defensive about it, but that all the others that were on the fence would feel that somehow they had been called racist too and thus respond positively to Trumps message of hate.

Wow, maybe Trump is some kind of next level genius.
11   Patrick   2020 Jan 1, 4:12pm  

marcus says
Oh I see. They weren't racist, they were sick of being called racist.


Yes, that's correct.
12   marcus   2020 Jan 1, 4:31pm  

marcus says
When people complain about Dems politicians appealing to lazy people that want free shit, why is it that I never feel they are saying that I want free shit ?
That it was an accusation about me personally ?

By your logic, shouldn't I be pissed off that people are accusing me of preferring democrats becasue I'm a lazy bum that doesn't want to work and wants a bunch of free shit?
I've never thought or felt that such a accusation was being levelled at me personally.
13   Patrick   2020 Jan 1, 4:36pm  

Were you accused of being inherently a Democrat? Are kids being taught that you're an inherently evil Democrat?

The problem with the 24/7 accusations of racism is that they have taken on the character of an "original sin". It doesn't matter what you say or do in life, you'll be accused anyway in all universities and most mainstream media.
14   Onvacation   2020 Jan 1, 4:36pm  

marcus says
By your logic, shouldn't I be pissed off that people are accusing me of preferring democrats becasue I'm a lazy bum that doesn't want to work and wants a bunch of free shit ?


There are the lazy bums and then there are the people who want to take OUR labor to feed and shelter the lazy bums. They feel smugly superior because they are "compassionate" and "progressive".

And why would Beca Sue care if you are a lazy bum?
15   Patrick   2020 Jan 1, 4:43pm  

I would not be at all surprised if China and maybe even Russia are quietly funding fake "racism" stories exactly in order to divide and weaken America.
16   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2020 Jan 1, 4:46pm  

marcus says
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No objective rational liberal ever claimed that all Trump voters or even most are racist.

But did racism make the difference in his being elected ? Obviously yes, considering how close it was in places like Wisconsin and Michigan.

"I'm sure some are fine people"

It's well documented from exit polls that working class whites put Trump in office. Were they motivated just by racism ? Of course not. But something got many of their resentments fired up enough to get their vote out enough to win in places where it was assumed Hillary would easily win.


Keep it up.

A Trump 2020 win won’t convince you how wrong you are. 12 more years of Republican presidents won’t do it. A 30 year 7-2 conservative SCOTUS majority won’t do it.

Keep it up. Fine by me.
17   BayArea   2020 Jan 2, 7:26am  

Patrick says
marcus says
Oh I see. They weren't racist, they were sick of being called racist.


Yes, that's correct.


Hmmm, Do you think he’s starting to get it Patrick?
18   Patrick   2020 Jan 2, 7:32am  

Let's try to stick to points and not discuss the other users.
19   tovarichpeter   2020 Jan 2, 7:35am  

Patrick says
Trump was elected to a large degree because of the relentless and baseless accusations of "racism".


Or because too many people who would probably describe themselves as liberals didn’t bother to vote
20   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Jan 2, 8:34am  

CovfefeButDeadly says

Keep it up.

A Trump 2020 win won’t convince you how wrong you are. 12 more years of Republican presidents won’t do it. A 30 year 7-2 conservative SCOTUS majority won’t do it.

Keep it up. Fine by me.


We see this in the fallout of the UK Election.

Labour lost their heartland in the Northeast of England.

Instead of asking why, the upper class Socialists decided their voters became Ray's Cyst.

Now Labour talks about their main priority being to increase immigration and replace the troublesome white working class (former) Labour Voter.
21   NDrLoR   2020 Jan 2, 9:56am  

Patrick says
resentment
Resentment is the foundation of Marxism, which is the justification of hatred based on class, unlike Nazism which is the justification of hatred based on race. In the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks took the private farms away from the Kulak peasants and collectivized their land, because heaven forbid no one could own private property. Then they couldn't feed the masses and had famine from then on. It was in this time that the US donated food to the starving peasantry, which the Bolshevik leaders hated but accepted grudgingly. The Bolsheviks executed more people in the first year of the revolution than the Czars had sentenced to death in the previous 90 years.
22   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Jan 2, 11:08am  

There's resentment from CURRENT injustice, and resentment from humbug.

American Colonialist resentment of London because of Shipping and Economic Laws have a basis in reality and cause/effect.

Ghetto Black resentment of Jews, Koreans, Haitians, Africans is resentment from humbug.
23   marcus   2020 Jan 11, 2:35pm  

Patrick says
Were you accused of being inherently a Democrat? Are kids being taught that you're an inherently evil Democrat?


It seems like you might have sort of understood my point:

marcus says
When people complain about Dems politicians appealing to lazy people that want free shit, why is it that I never feel they are saying that I want free shit ? THat it was an accusation about me personally ?

By your logic, shouldn't I be pissed off that people are accusing me of preferring democrats becasue I'm a lazy bum that doesn't want to work and wants a bunch of free shit ?
I've never thought or felt that such a accusation was being levelled at me personally. And even those that do suggest that as a government worker, I am in that boat, I don't care, I know the value of my work, and how hard I work.


I think my analogy is actually perfect, and that you didn't refute it.

I've never said all people that vote republican are racist. And nobody is teaching that republicans are inherently racist. Some might be sharing factual observations that the Trump cult is very much different than traditional conservatives.

But we are getting in to touchy territory here. Because many of those most defensive about being called racist are in fact totally racist by my definition. This was the point of my analogy.
24   HeadSet   2020 Jan 11, 3:15pm  

Because many of those most defensive about being called racist are in fact totally racist by my definition.

Your definition? Well that makes it easy. No wonder the claim of "racism" can be thrown at working class Whites who voted for the Black Man twice, but did not vote for the White woman. Ohio, for instance.
25   krc   2020 Jan 12, 12:16am  

marcus says
:
No objective rational liberal ever claimed that all Trump voters or even most are racist.

But did racism make the difference in his being elected ? Obviously yes, considering how close it was in places like Wisconsin and Michigan.

"I'm sure some are fine people"

It's well documented from exit polls that working class whites put Trump in office. Were they motivated just by racism ? Of course not. But something got many of their resentments fired up enough to get their vote out enough to win in places where it was assumed Hillary would easily win.


Always interesting when there is discussion that trump won because of "racists" and they point to a voting block (white males) where trump, in some states, may have won close to 60% of the vote. That indicates racism apparently. And yet, 90% of blacks vote democrat and that is not an indication of "racism". Funny how that works.... any vote that a white makes is the obvious result of racist desires (or enough to swing an election), and yet a monolithic black vote that stamps "DEM" simply indicates they are voting their best interests. Too bad we can't just accept that everyone is voting what is in their best interest and not the result of nefarious racist motivations - but that would wreck the story line.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2016/results/exit-polls/ohio/president
26   Hircus   2020 Jan 19, 7:37pm  

Patrick says
The problem with the 24/7 accusations of racism is that they have taken on the character of an "original sin". It doesn't matter what you say or do in life, you'll be accused anyway in all universities and most mainstream media.


27   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Jan 19, 7:53pm  

The reason given is never the reason; the reason is always the hatred of the ordinary American/Briton/Frenchman/InsertPlace.

While many minorities hate the majority and secretly wish to dominate the majority, the hatred of the home culture is best described by Roger Scruton here:

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