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The concept of "turn the other cheek" and "be the bigger man by not rising to it" has successfully pacified the western proletariat.
One of the only tools the proles have to police themselves socially is NOT turning the other cheek. It is by actively providing social consequences to bad things that proles enforce among themselves a social culture.
By everyone "keeping to themselves" and "minding their own business" and "leaving it to the authorities" what has occurred is the mass outsourcing of social and cultural behaviour to the state. Where communities used to police themselves and expect certain social behaviours - or else - no longer does that exist. The only people still doing this are reactionaries with their racism and intolerance, while the authorities allow them to get away with it to a degree because it's not a culture that harms capital.
Parts of the UK are currently absolutely covered in union jacks and "Free UK" posters. Reactionaries are putting them up everywhere in support of deporting hundreds of thousands of people. They are actively shifting the culture and "turn the other cheek" is actively contributing to them getting away with it because they face no consequences.
I know the thread is about offing a world leader but I want to think a little closer to home. This mindset has permeated the entirety of western culture to a degree that is seriously dangerous.
To add a reinforcement of credibility, I can recall that reporters and politicians asked BLM activists, organizers, and protesters regarding victimizers and brutal behavior of police if they could forgive them.
I learned this tactic used by people of That was in the past or *Can't we put this behind us/forgive them" really just means "go home".
Yes very much so. Even if your retaliation against people doing bad things is just with words, it is "rude".
Religion acting like some form of... painkiller... of the masses. Far from being something to be used to reach spiritual enlightenment. To break the wheel of Samsara. To become one with all. To love thy neighbour. It is a distraction that prevents the oppressed, the wretched of the earth, from changing the status quo.
I wonder if anyone else has noticed this before
It's pervasive though. Even the non-religious and many atheists are completely bought into this mindset, without ever even realising or questioning that their fundamental belief is christian faith teachings. And if you try and raise this with them they undergo extreme cognitive dissonance. It is taken as common sense that you are the bigger person if you ignore another who is doing bad things. Written out this way of course makes it sound absurd but this is how people behave, they consider it wrong to retaliate against those doing bad things. Even if it's just with words it's "rude".
I wanna know about asocial culture