What about the weak makes the strong hate them?

[Moonwalk]

23. Actually, the answer is incredibly simple: They are Lazy. I don't mean in the workplace...

I mean morally, ethically and empathetically lazy and selfish. The poor, to these people, are like hungry people outside the window as they try to enjoy dinner. The selfish part of them wants those poor gone so they can enjoy the dinner--out of sight, out of mind. And the lazy part of them doesn't want to have to do anything constructive to get rid of them because, well, that takes work. If you say, "If a person s poor it's their own fault..." then you don't have to do anything--you absolve yourself morally and ethically from any obligation to help them--even to help them help themselves (i.e. provide jobs).

Stigmatize, ghettoize, and demonize. Stigmatize means you blame the victim so you need not take any responsibility or ever feel bad for not helping them. Ghettoize means out of sight, out of mind. Get the hungry away from the window--or more precisely, out of the stores where their food stamp cards remind others that they exist and hurt their enjoyment of their own good life. It also means no one can call you on your lies (i.e. "I'm friends with a poor person and know they work hard..." If poor people are all in the ghetto, you can say what you like about them and those out side the ghetto will believe it). This also allows one the fringe benefit of demonizing--meaning instant scapegoat, one that (like all good scapegoats) can't really fight back. So you can blame them not only for their own situation, but for other evils. Like "why is our government so in the red?" --uh, oh, can't let anyone know it's because of that useless war we started..."The poor! All those expensive programs to help the poor are to blame."

It's no surprise this ancient method is used time and again by the selfish and lazy so they can eat in their exclusive club without undesirables ruining their lunch. The real problem, however, is not these people. It's those that are not them, and not their victims. The ones who could end all this simply by siding with the victims and calling the selfish/lazy on their lies. But they don't. Like the town backing the footballs player rapists and blaming the girl who was raped, they'd rather swallow the lie then face the truth. The truth means they have to get involved, feel bad, take responsibility, and actually do something. Given a way out of all that, they too will selfishly, and lazily take it.