Hatred of welfare claimants actually expresses hatred of one’s own work.

Evidence

The reason that it’s so easy to whip up loathing for “benefit scroungers” is that — in the reactionary fantasy — they have escaped the suffering to which those in work have to submit. This fantasy tells its own story: the hatred for benefits claimants is really about how much people hate their own work. Others should suffer as we do: the slogan of a negative solidarity that cannot imagine any escape from the immiseration of work. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1708

The reason that it’s so easy to whip up loathing for “benefit scroungers” is that — in the reactionary fantasy — they have escaped the suffering to which those in work have to submit. This fantasy tells its own story: the hatred for benefits claimants is really about how much people hate their own work. Others should suffer as we do: the slogan of a negative solidarity that cannot imagine any escape from the immiseration of work. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1708

Categorization

• XREF: Deepens the book’s running account of welfare-bashing as displaced anger, echoing ch 107’s kept claim that the Tories reframed unemployment as welfare dependency. — connects to: Hate toward outgroups can reflect self-hatred projected outward. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2341; Oppressed people can internalize the oppressor’s hatred and turn it against themselves.; Self-loathing intellectuals project their hatred onto a generalized other group — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 449 (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1708

Broader Connections

• Hate toward outgroups can reflect self-hatred projected outward. #corroborates (0.90) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2341
• Self-loathing intellectuals project their hatred onto a generalized other group #corroborates (0.80) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 449
• Capitalist anti-Semitism is the bourgeoisie’s self-hatred displaced onto Jews #exemplifies (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 132
• Self-hatred toward one’s own group is displaced self-loathing made safe #corroborates (0.80)
• Oppressed people can internalize the oppressor’s hatred and turn it against themselves. #expands (0.75)
• Repeated exposure to accusations of laziness and ignorance breeds ingroup self-hate #expands (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 959
• Hate speech can express displaced personal unhappiness rather than genuine ideology #corroborates (0.75) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 239