[tweriaroats]

I have observed in IRL but also in this forum a widespread ideology, which I'll call "WeAreism" and "YouAreism"... that consist:

-In case of WeAreism, in award yourself a merit, actions or economic status that does not belong to you, as if you had participated in them, just because they were performed by someone from your country or ethnic group, in present or in past.

Examples:

-We are rich
-We fed you
-We discovered the electricity
-We go to the moon
-We were wandering in the desert for 40 years

Who often make such statements is not rich, has fed no one, has discovered nothing, nor has any been wandering aany desert. Simply entering a collective category can admire himself to belong to something bigger.

-In case of YouAreism, to accuse another of a certain action, behavior or economic status, just because it has been performed by someone or some of their country or ethnic group.

Examples:

-You are poor
-You are lazy
-You are ungrateful
-You are loud
-You are usurer
-You invaded us

In this case, is used to try to make you feel inferior, or justify something by "your" actions.

Most of totalitarianism use it: feminism (women could not vote), communism (the communists we controlled 1/3 of the world), Nazism (whites are superior) ... and most of times these identifications are vague and misleading.

And important...Everyone who discuss Weareist propaganda will be accused of hating the group with which Weareist identify themselves: who does not believe the Zionists nonsense is an anti-Semite, who does not believe the Nazi nonsense a Jewish agent, who does not believe the communists nonsense is a capitalist, who does not believe the feminist nonsense a misogynist, who does not believe the multiculturalist nonsense a racist.