What do you call this phenomenon? I think of the kulaks burning their harvest and I think of schools shutting down during desegregation in the US rather than integrate. Are there any other good examples? Why do people do this?
Public pools after segregation also, there used to be soooo many public pools and so many closed because they would rather take it away than share with black people
they perceive the loss of class privilege as equivalent to annihilation
Literally why the world is ending due to climate change.
The wealthy know we’re heading off a cliff, but they’d rather keep the system and frantically build bunkers and buy up farmland than change course. Doing so would mean giving up the system protecting their wealth.
They’d rather let the world burn.
The rich know they’re vastly outnumbered,
And endeavor to keep us encumbered
With onerous debts,
While their blue piggy pets
Help the bastards defend what they’ve plundered.
I came across it probably in the early r/CTH days. The 2nd line is the only one I rewrote to flow better.
It’s called cutting off your nose to spite your face
