TOON: why do American workers take frustration out on each other but Europeans go after boss?

[yurbud]

This is funny, but raises a serious question. It seems like our rage is often deflected away from the people who deserve it.

This Wall Street bailout shit is probably the only time it hasn't worked, but they tried to shift the anger to low income minority home buyers.

Why isn't anyone going after their CEO's here? I'm not advocating violence but it is weird how sheepish we can be.

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[Occam Bandage]

1. I'm not sure I buy the argument here:

that we would be a healthier society if we redirected mass murderers to go out rioting and hostage-taking instead.

[yurbud]

10. at least the focus of the anger is more appropriate.

[Occam Bandage]

13. That's true,

in the cases where the murders are being spurred on in large part by economic hardship, which is the case in quite a few of them.

[xchrom]

2. recommend

[hedgehog]

3. We feel the need to act indvidually while the Europeans are more

attuned to group action. Independence vs. Solidarity

[Fresh_Start]

4. we are more competitive and less cooperative

in my mind, we look at those who are within one step of us on the ladder

[Echo In Light]

5. You see it here all the time: people LOVE to hate others for any reason

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

6. Europeans have not been brainwashed into believing that

there are no such things as social classes that have diametrically opposed interests. They know better than to buy such transparent bullshit.

[yurbud]

12. we see ethnic divisions, but in reality, middle class white & black families have more...

common interests than either would with a billionaire of their own race.

It's ironic that even white supremacists don't realize their wealthy white brethren see them as so much cattle to be fed into a meat grinder and no more their own kind than a chicken or dog.

[amborin]

18. exactly; hence they had/have labor parties and identify as working class, whereas

no one in the U.S. wants to be considered working class, even though most everyone is

workers here identify with capitalists and suffer from economism

[dflprincess]

7. We've been conditioned to blame the victim

even when we are the victim.

[rrneck]

8. Here's an interesting book

http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Rebellion-Workplaces-Columbine/dp/1932360824/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240335703&sr=8-2

An eye-opening look at the phenomenon of school and workplace shootings in America, Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has plagued — and baffled — America for the last three decades, and offers some provocative answers to the oft-asked question, "Why?" By juxtaposing the historical place of rage in America with the social climate that has existed since the 1980s — when Reaganomics began to widen the gap between executive and average-worker earnings — the author crafts a convincing argument that these schoolyard and office massacres can be seen as modern-day slave rebellions. He presents many fascinating and unexpected cases in detail. Like slave rebellions, these massacres are doomed, gory, sometimes even inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood. Taking up where Bowling for Columbine left off, this book seeks to set these murders in their proper context and thereby reveal their meaning.

[yurbud]

11. that sounds great! Thanks for the tip.

[baldguy]

9. Holding capitalists responsible for the decisions they make is SOCIALISM!!!

[Fireweed247]

14. great toon

I do agree Americans need to focus their anger in a more useful manner...not violent....but a little tar and feathers never hurt anyone :rofl:

[yurbud]

15. I've got that covered:

http://fascart.blogspot.com/2008/09/photoshop-video-tar-feather-wall-st-for.html

[scrinmaster]

16. Why is it OK to take your boss hostage if layoffs are threatened?

[Vidar]

17. For the same reason our gun nuts never aim at a guilty party--media manipulation.