Do you all remember the Dr. Seuss story about the Sneetches? A group of creatures that appeared in two groups: Sneetches with stars and Sneetches without. The Sneetches with stars found themselves superior while the ones without felt inferior. The oppressed group paid money to a smooth-talking Sylvester McMonkey McBean to have stars placed on their stomachs in order to gain favor with the star-stomached elite only to find that when they did the original star-bellies paid money (to the same man!) to have theirs removed!
Moral: People (Sneetches) with a superiority complex will change the rules and move the finish line every time to hold onto their privilege. Whether you are dark skinned, plus size, first-generation American/college student, too short, queer, or just march to the beat of a different drum, it won’t matter how you try to change to be embraced. It won’t work. Being yourself, embracing yourself, is the only way you’ll ever be happy. Love yourself no matter what you’ve got on your belly. ⭐️
Additional moral: the wealthy profit off low self esteem and pit different groups against each other so they won’t notice.
third moral: the privileged don’t actually think the aspects that make you different are bad, they think they’re bad when they’re on you
Fourth moral – when a middle class gains power, the upper classes will either introduce decide that nice clothes are a tacky nouveau-riche thing, or introduce sumptuary laws forbidding anyone not an aristocrat to wear nice clothes, at which point the middle classes will embrace restrained chic and make the aristocrat’s fancy clothes look fussy and old-fashioned. This moral sort of got away from me, but my point is that good taste is really an aesthetic version of sour grapes.
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