Politics of resentment
The politics of resentment, sometimes called grievance politics, is a form of politics which is based on resentment of some other group of people.[17]
Types
The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (October 2023) |
Male
Male grievance culture is a common feature in mass shooters, according to a study which examined their motivations in the intersection of white entitlement, middle-class instability, and heterosexual masculinity. The study's author, Leigh Paterson, wrote that such murderers may be highly motivated by "white male grievance culture".[18][19]
Female
White
Columnist Michael Gerson argues that in American politics, the Republican Party has been "swiftly repositioned as an instrument of white grievance."[20][non-primary source needed]
Reaction to demographic change
Demographic change in the United States propelled by immigration has led to an increasing proportion of people with diverse backgrounds, and a decreasing proportion of whites. By 1998, places like Hawaii, Houston, and New York City had no majority race. This trend increased in the 21st century, with several more cities where whites were once the majority, but no longer are. Highly visible advances of certain minorities, such as the first Black president and the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, also took place in this period.
In some states, state legislators moved to restrict immigration by law. In the field of education, some white elected officials have moved to restrict
This came to a head during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign.[21]: 2
Black
Nationalist
Sociologist
Religious
Sexuality and gender
Grievance culture
Jason Manning and Bradley Campbell draw on the work of sociologist Donald Black on conflict and on cross-cultural studies of conflict and morality to argue that the contemporary culture wars resemble tactics described by scholars in which an aggrieved party or group seeks the support of third parties. They argue that grievance-based conflicts have led to large-scale moral change in which an emergent victimhood culture is clashing with and replacing older honor and dignity cultures.[23] Political commentator E. J. Dionne has written that culture war is an electoral technique to exploit differences and grievances, remarking that the real cultural division is "between those who want to have a culture war and those who don't."[24]
See also
References
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- ^ Koncewicz, Tomasz Tadeusz (28 September 2017). "Understanding the Politics of Resentment". Verfassungsblog. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
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- ^ Multiple sources:[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
- ^ Paterson, Leigh (9 August 2019). "Many Mass Shooters Share A Common Bond: Male Grievance Culture". Guns & America Project. Washington, D.C.: WAMU | American University Radio. Archived from the original on 2020-02-20. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
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- ^ Gerson, Michael (1 March 2021). "Opinion | The GOP is now just the party of white grievance". The Washington Post. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
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- ^ Dionne, E. J. (January 2006). "Why the Culture War Is the Wrong War". The Atlantic.
Further reading
- Banet-Weiser, Sarah (25 October 2018). Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-1-4780-0277-2.
- Orr, James J. (1 April 2001). The Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-6515-3.
- Walklate, Sandra (14 July 2017). Handbook of Victims and Victimology. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-49624-3.