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this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2024
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There is a fundamental difference between insulting the powerful and insulting people.
Having high status or power changes your brain, suppressing empathy and making you more capable of hurting others. Power makes people neurologically more evil, so it's correct to apply different standards to the powerful.
Insulting is a way to chip away at someone's social status, so 'punching up' has a (minor) positive leveling effect whereas 'punching down' tends to reinforce inequality and it's enabler: prejudice.
Disrespecting the powerful is important, necessary and beneficial.
Who are the rich you're insulting by commenting on Lemmy?
You were talking about people on lemmy insulting the powerful. Specifically the police, the rich and musk.
Disrespecting / insulting the rich and powerful on a platform like Lemmy is like talking shit about "libtards" on a Trump rally; none of the people you're disrespecting are there to hear.