Working-class men would fear and resent genuine equality of status

Evidence

How would these lower middle and working class men feel about a change in the social order such that they and their friends might suddenly be equal to others now higher or lower in the social order? Most of them wouldn’t like it. They would fear and resent this kind of equality. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2233

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2233
• XREF: connects to: Working-class people desire welfare-state measures while fearing equality itself. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 2139; Gender equality threatens men’s identity by eliminating status difference — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 584; Believing gender equality is possible but too costly suppresses men’s collective guilt. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 601