It's not economic anxiety, it's people who've always been cruel finding a guy that makes fun of all the people they hate and worshipping him for it.
I feel like that 'economic anxiety' shit is given to them too much of an excuse. Sure, it may agitate things, but these are by and large people who were already innately hostile to anyone different.
It's sad, but that's what it is.
It's not, but reactionaries are pretty fucking cruel. But you could easily argue that their role in the economic system requires that they be fine with exploiting others, especially the marginised. You could bring settler or protestant history into it if you want to expand.
Exactly...
I just feel like sometimes certain sects of the left, are prone to giving these shitbags excuses. Or trying too hard to explain why they are the way they are.
The contemporary reactionaries are actively trying to con camp and get rid of anyone they deem to be a 'freak'. If they had their way, 90% of us hexbears would be fuckin dead and gone.
I've spent the last 20+ years with the life philosophy of "think exactly the opposite of the reactionaries" and it's never failed to be correct.
Tends to work well for me as well. I don't like laying my head down at night thinking I've treated someone like shit