Should Your Country Have A Conscience…
…even when you don’t exercise yours?
Now and then, I hear white US citizens say “I don’t need no uppity government types far away in D.C. tell me how to handle my business here in podunk, somestate.” It’s usually a hard-working guy who lives in a rural area who values historically traditional roles in a patriarchal society. The race of influential officials in the communities where people like this live is so homogeneous that this type of individual tends to reject ideas introduced by “outside agitators." The latter almost always look different than the accusers in terms of race, ethnicity, or/ and gender, though they are all US citizens.
The differentiators that set the “outside agitators” apart somehow invalidate their ideas that challenge the insulated community’s social norms based on a “the way things have always been done” mindset. From the perspective of those who want to conserve the status quo, human nature dictates that they will rationalize the outcomes of any customs that harm outgroups as long as their ingroup thrives. Thus, the essence of this issue is socioeconomic status. Wealth makes the ingroup’s world go round. This has been the American way to the advantage of European descendants since before the country was established.
