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What can i do about the strong hayltred i have been developing for the working class? (lemmygrad.ml)

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Im working class, and have worked a lot of industrial construction jobs most people are too scared to do.

My coworkers are invariably all subhuman bigoted orcs that are literally dumber than the "people" from the movie Idiocracy.

After arguing with 3 coworkers who all believed that trans people shit in litterboxes i think that i have decided that the working class isnt worth anything. They all just hate all my friends anyway. Id rather have a society of gay landlords oppressing these subhumans.

I cursed them out, which does nothing but get me in trouble. They reported me to HR for harassing them. I hate the working class. I hate straight people.

Do i want to feel this way? No - ive dedicated a lot of my life to socialist organizing. Im a massive hypocrite. I hate myself, dont worry.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You don't hate them. You hate the system that educated them to think like that.

When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor. - Paulo Freire

Our only way out is to study more, to be better prepared when these conversations happen, and to continue organising where possible.

But also remembering that most people won't be reasoned out of ignorance. It's through emotion, commitment and trust from people that understand themselves as equals that they listen. Right now, you feel enlightened and superior to them. This is not the way.

Also, I may be wrong. Happy for comrades to argue against me.