True enough. It is so easy for people to rationalise their own shortcomings by complaining that any ill will directed to them “must” be because they are Jewish, Black, Irish, Hispanic, Catholic, Muslim, Left-handed, disabled, Mormon, Female, Homosexual etc etc. Depressingly, sometimes that may indeed be the case, but more often than not people react negatively to someone because they are, basically, as you say, world class pricks. :0
“It is so easy for people to rationalize their own shortcomings by complaining any ill will directed to them “must” be because they are....,”
Yep, when I was at the Univ of TX in the late 60’s I would meet these hippies who would tell me how shallow the rest of the world/adults/students/profs, etc., were because they rejected the hippies out of hand due of the clothes they wore, the music they liked and directionless life they led.
Well, I told them that I thought they would have been rejected by everybody regardless what they wore because they were examples of piss poor protoplasm with no direction or goals in life. They just deluded themselves in to thinking people rejected them because of their clothes/life style because the alternative, that they were actually, personally, being rejected was a pretty big pill, as in dose of reality, to swallow.
I went back to UT about 20 years later and the same guys who were panhandling on the street corners as cute hippies in 1970 were sill there, except they now looked like burned out bums/wino/drug addicts, or as the politically correct would say, - homeless democrats.
Unfortunately, many of these people have been elected to the California legislature and are still deluded and live in a dream world with paisley whales and peacocks and are wasting my money on piss poor protoplasm.