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Never assume that just because somebody is a member of a minority they're not prejudiced assholes.
It's exactly because we're all humans that assholes are equally distributed across all groups defined by things other than behavior and political beliefs - no such group is inherently composed of better or worse individuals than other groups.
People in groups being oppressed are less likely to behave as assholes simply because the assholes in those groups fear reprisals far more than the assholes in the dominant groups and in my experience plenty of people who behave meekly because of being part of an oppressed group will start behaving as assholes if given power and immunity to reprisals.
That's awesome. Thank you. I've seen a bit of that throughout all my life, feeling like I don't belong in any subculture cause of something of this sort. It's always something, I don't want to get to the conclusion that life sucks and everyone sucks that's kind of edgy but a % of that is so true no matter the subculture haha. I just have to do my own thing i guess
I appreciate that btw<3
For avoidance of doubt my point is in no way a criticism of mankind:
As far as I can tell, there are no more of the first kind than the second, though it's my impression that the third kind, in the middle, are at times in average more pro-social or more anti-social depending on the predominant culture of a place and time.
In the current Greed Is Good environment dominant in the West I would say that the bulk of people who aren't internally driven towards being a good person or being a selfish asshole tend toward "What's in it for me" anti-social behavior if only because that attracts more rewards and less social pushback, though as I said and in my experience of living in a couple of countries, local culture also has a big say in that.