The good guys and the bad guys

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To understand people, you must understand their mentality, understand how their mind works. You have to understand their basic assumptions and beliefs. The mentality of a certain very powerful and influential group in our society is a very simplistic one. It goes this way:

Society is to be understood by an understanding of classes and class dynamics. It is all about good guys and bad guys, the oppressed victim class (or classes), the oppressor class, and the good, virtuous, charitable, champion-of-justice class (themselves). If a victim class get angry and starts striking out by rioting, violence, and burning down cities, that can be understood and sympathized with because these people have been victimized, discriminated against, and oppressed. They have been wronged by the bad guys. They can’t be held responsible. You have to deal with them gently and listen to them. The real villain is not them but their oppressor who made them to be the way they are. He is the evil one. It is the bad guys who are responsible for everything.

However, all is different with regard to the bad guys. If the bad guys get angry and start demonstrating they need to be dealt with harshly. You don’t take any nonsense from them because they are the bad guys. You put them down with a rod of iron.

So the good guys who are very compassionate and understanding people help the victim classes in all ways they can and smash down the bad guys. The bad guys are bad, evil, intolerant types — racists, white supremacists, bigoted religious fanatics who won’t accept homosexuality, etc. — people filled with bias, malice, hatred, and badness. People who deserve nothing. Real nasty, bad types. It is true the crime rate among this group is extremely low but nonetheless, they are the bad guys and you don’t take any nonsense from bad guys.

It is also true that the crime rate among the victim class is many, many times higher than that of the rest of society but that is not their fault either. It is understandable because they have been oppressed and discriminated against. They are frustrated and confused and it all appears in the form of crime and violence. It is also true that their performance in school is far below that of the rest of the society but that also is not their fault — it is because they have been discriminated against and oppressed. And it is true that the child illegitimacy rate of the victim class is 72% (while that of the most of the rest of the society is at 30%) and most grow up in one parent households but that is not their fault either. It is because they have been oppressed and their great, great, great, great grandparents were slaves. And, besides, it is just part of their culture. It is true that the government has tried to help them with all kinds of welfare programs, anti-discrimination laws and “affirmative action” laws where they are placed at the front of the line in regard to hiring (i.e. discrimination laws favoring them), but that hasn’t made a really big difference either. It is true that all kinds of efforts have been made to help them in their performance in schools but they haven’t worked either — large numbers get passed through the school system hardly able to even read or write. In short, they just always fall far below the rest of society on all measures of conduct and performance. How could such performance differences in a society possibly be accounted for except by social injustice and the dastardly manipulation, bias, and oppression of bad people?

I have a question. Could this class oriented way of viewing everything have a background in the Marxist “class struggle” ideas? Do I see some commonalities between these ideas and Communist ideas and mentality? What is important from this kind of outlook is not personal sin and immorality and personal morality, integrity, goodness, and virtue. What is important is class oppression, class sin. It is classes of people that are the wrongdoers, the sinners, not individuals. Here, the problems of society are all due to a wrong type of economic or political system and we just need to replace the existing system with a new enlightened Marxist system to solve all of our social problems. Personal wrongdoing is due to a bad social and economic system and with an enlightened system everyone would be good and all would be great. But to get to our great enlightened utopia we need to eliminate all of these bad guys. They are standing in the way.

8 Feb 2022