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Bachir Atallah you really thought you were white adjacent and one of the good ones?

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[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

Sir Terry Pratchett hitting the nail on the head. This kind of mentality will be the death of us all, I fear.