It is incredibly disturbing when oppressed people actually end up oppressing/bullying more people below them on the social hierarchy.

In the ancient society, it was the clergy and kings who oppressed the commoners. Now these commoners in turn oppressed the slaves.

This pattern continues even now. In all fairness, this takes place even in today’s corporate culture. The next time you are apathetic to the janitor or sometimes even actively insult that social outcast even while you get bullied by a bully, think of it.

It also turns out that a lot of times, Bullies are usually bullied at home or in their childhood. which they end up showing in school or college or even at work.

This goes on even in my country where people on the upper strata oppress the people in the middle strata. Now these middle strata people are known to be worser oppressors who oppress the lower strata people the worst. Now, there are hierarchies among the lower strata people where the lowest lower strata get oppressed more than the higher lower strata people. Forgive my English butchering here but I hope you get my point.

For the US, I don’t have any present day examples but imagine Django Unchained. In that movie, Samuel Jackson would be oppressed by Leo but Samuel himself would oppress Jamie Foxx and his wife if I remember correctly.

My point here is this behaviour is very disturbing. Simply because you got oppressed by someone doesn’t mean you should go in and oppress someone who is weaker than you. Please be a human and at least not bully/oppress people.