Suffrage serves as a moral defense against anticapitalist resentment of privilege

Evidence

When Havemeyer used the word “rabble,” Smith looked up at him. The blue eyes were steel. The laughter in the room died away. “Rabble? That’s me you’re talking about.” He reached out a hand and seized the appropriation form. Trying desperately to turn his remark into a joke, Havemeyer said quickly, “Why, where’s a poor millionaire to go nowadays if he wants to be alone?” “Try the Harlem River Hospital,” Smith said. The Harlem River Hospital was an insane asylum. As Havemeyer flushed, the Governor signed the form. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 815

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dominant groups defend privilege through bounded ideological justifications; Threatened privilege, not disadvantage, can also trigger politicized collective identity — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4441; Powerlessness creates doubt while privilege naturalizes itself through justifying ideologies — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 289 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Dominant groups defend privilege through bounded ideological justifications #expands (0.78)
• Powerlessness creates doubt while privilege naturalizes itself through justifying ideologies #expands (0.75) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 289
• Privileged groups rationalize oppression by claiming the oppressed enjoy advantages #complicates (0.73) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1972
• Threatened privilege, not disadvantage, can also trigger politicized collective identity #complicates (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4441