Why It Is Easy to Hate the Poor

We see the poor in these chicken bones under a seat in the bus. Charles Mudede
The French philosopher Jacques Rancière has written eloquently about the hatred of democracy. Along with this kind of hatred is a hatred of the poor. But where as an intensely passionate hatred of democracy is exclusive to the rich, who use every opportunity to undermine it, the hatred of the poor is shared by the rich and the middle classes. Indeed, for reasons that are obvious and not so obv