I'm glad my fox news dad is dead.

Another part of it is that many of them don't like to face the reality that they've been playing a rigged game in their favor.

Life for all of us is like a giant lottery. We don't have any real control over who we are born as, what our sex, sexual orientation, our race, or where we were born in the world. White people in America aren't free from the lottery, but America is heavily rigged to give them a lot more favorable grounds, even if they still aren't given an absolute guarantee of success.

A lot of these white straight people go through life believing they're playing a fair game, and that everyone who failed clearly must have failed on their own merits, which combined with insidious whitewashed propaganda that pushes the idea that white people are superior to other races (even if only subtly), leads to a very distorted view of the world.

But society is getting louder and louder, and the rigged nature of the American game is only becoming more and more obvious, and this makes the right wingers intensely uncomfortable, because it actively challenges their notion of what their society is: a "fair, just" society where other races and minorities fail because of their inherent inferiority, while "superior" whites like them succeed on their own merits.

The reality that things are heavily rigged in their favor even when they fail miserably is utterly jarring for these people, as it means having to admit that they're not as great as they think they are, and that other people have been set up to fail by the system they've coasted on for their entire lives. And they don't want to face that reality. A large chunk of American society is horrendously egocentric, nationalistic, and glorifies selfish individualism to such an extreme that many people literally cannot value or understand any sort of common goal or good without distorting it through a cruel and self-absorbed lens.

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