"Bitch"

[Syzygy321]

214. You make an interesting point.

But, I think, it's the oversimplified attitude of someone who has never been on the losing side of a divide.

Some injustices are real - and getting publicly angry about them is the only way to improve them.

OTOH I sympathize somewhat because I've been among people who were raised to nurse grievances: "The west is why our people suffer; they are trying to destroy our religion" stuff. It's a line of propaganda that serves incompetent or power-mad leaders well: point a finger elsewhere, establish a scapegoat, cast all local dissent as disloyalty, cast all internal social movements as treason, keep the citizens frothing at the mouth and ready to fight your wars, relieve yourself and all citizen-leaders of taking responsibility for the ever-crappy situation, deflect all criticism onto foreign villains, and claim God on your side.

Result: lots of bad things. Most recently a grievance-nursing guy on a train with a Kalahnikov, probably trying to "even the score" as he was taught.

But still. Legitimate criticism and well-founded anger are not the same as nursing grievances.