Must read- Instead of being disgusted by poverty, we are disgusted by poor people themselves

[Uncle Joe]

47. I believe that "disgust" is based on fear. The fear of becoming poor leads to an emotional barrier

being erected subconciously in some people's minds as a means of physchological protection seperating themselves from that which they fear becoming, poor.

This same fear can be easily exploited or manipulated by evil scaremongers in dehumanizing the poor and in turn leading to fascism.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/16/suzanne-moore-disgusted-by-poor

"Three years ago I was on a panel with Vince Cable at The Convention of Modern Liberty, when Cable was still reckoned a seer for predicting the recession. He said then that the financial crisis would mean civil liberties would be trampled on. But what stuck in my mind was a sentence he mumbled about the pre-conditions for fascism arising. Scaremongering? The emotional pre-condition is absolutely this punitive attitude to the weak and poor."

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I believe that's part of the reason, FDR said this.

Thanks for the thread, malaise.