#like even dedra and whats his face (the isb agents who are not white men lol) are girlboss bullshit but no doubt they've had to deal with

[jyndor]

before anyone gets any stupid ideas about how syril will get radicalized because he’s poor and whatever ahem what

no lmfao the people who generally get radicalized into fascism are usually NOT poor, they are often downwardly mobile middle class and petit bourgeois people who feel threatened by classes they perceive as lower than them. syril starting out as a cop is important because cops protect capital and the ownership class - the bourgeoisie, those who own the means of production and who make their income by profiting off of the labor of others. they are class traitors because they generally aren’t of the bourgeoisie but of the working class, they use their unions to marginalize others and protect themselves from accountability, and they brutalize working people in the name of capitalists whose property they protect.

and they make really great money for doing it.

look at syril’s mother’s home. that is not a poor woman’s home. that is not mon mothma’s old money coruscant penthouse either, but you can see that they are not poor. mama karn is solidly middle class - with family that seem to be business owners themselves btw - and has that conservative middle class mindset of kick the kids out when they turn 18, be shocked when they come back because people fuck up (even if syril’s fuck up is... ridiculous lmfao) and life is harder than it was for her generation, and if you don’t have “prospects” (aka are not actively upwardly mobile and working within a capitalism system to become an owner instead of a worker, which is something cops can do because their jobs pay fucking well, but is not easy and frankly for many people impossible) you’re a failure. but she’s not poor. the woman doesn’t seem to work. she’s at home. she’s financially secure... barring some crazy disaster like her cop son fucking around and finding out.

i need people to understand that just because times are harder for those of us who grew up with parents that are not poor, it doesn’t make US poor. we have someone to fall back on, a safety net - unless we are totally cut off from our families of course. it is not to say it is easy to be under or unemployed, or that times AREN’T hard for younger generations (of course they are). and instead of internalizing what older generations of (white) middle class/upper middle class let alone wealthy people have said for ages, we need to finally acknowledge that the system is not set up for any worker, and that there is no middle class - it is just working class and the class that owns the means of production. but “middle class” people are so susceptible to fascism because they have something to protect, and in a system that is based on a principle of fuck you got mine, you kick down, you don’t kick up. it’s easier to protect your assets from poor people - it’s nearly impossible to protect them from people with wealth and power. it’s the crabs in a bucket thing - while people are generally very good, when stressed we don’t always see the bigger picture. we tend to fight the easiest, nearest fight.

syril karn has a safety net, but i guarantee because he’s clearly got a complex and a half (capitalism does rot a brain and he doesn’t seem terribly smart to begin with) he’s entitled and offended by the idea that someone like cassian - an immigrant, an indigenous person, someone who refused to be bullied into submission, someone with “dark features” - someone who is of a lower class than him. who isn’t “civilized” like him or his mother.

he’s an easier target, a scapegoat.

i imagine there will be someone to “mentor” syril fully into fascism, maybe someone connected to his uncle if not his uncle himself because after all, petit bourgeois is pretty susceptible to fascism.

fascism is all about hierarchies. and so far the show has been scathing in its rebuke of imperialist, racist, classist hegemony.