That's true, that wasn't really my point. My point is that privileged people will dictate these "nightmare scenarios" for why they need to have unchecked power, to prevent? And almost universally it's something that the same privileged people have done to other unprivileged people prior. It's a remarkably consistent cognitive blind-spot.
Like genuinely, with as good of faith as I can muster for people who spread really dogshit ideas, the core concern they seem to have but won't say, with a gun to their heads, is they are scared shitless that minority groups will, somehow, at some point, attain power greater than their own, at which point the minority group will enact the exact same horrific policies that were enacted unto them. It's a core fear of really every society that has at once point had slaves in my experience.
Like genuinely, with as good of faith as I can muster for people who spread really dogshit ideas, the core concern they seem to have but won't say, with a gun to their heads, is they are scared shitless that minority groups will, somehow, at some point, attain power greater than their own, at which point the minority group will enact the exact same horrific policies that were enacted unto them. It's a core fear of really every society that has at once point had slaves in my experience.