Finally, there is evidence that the kindness or unkindness of individuals creates sympathy or resentment towards all the members of their group and a desire for reciprocity towards them, even those who played no part in the original acts.
But even the abatements are a source of resentment among individual commercial and residential property owners, some of whom feel they are subsidizing the abated properties.
Not unnaturally, individual withdrawals often aroused resentment, and the reform worked more effectively when whole villages agreed to consolidate and enclose their strips.
Cross told explained to me that the alternative of charging enterprises for individual features has generated resentment in the industry — customers don't have much power and either have to pay up or swallow a painful switch to a new provider.
Instead of the focus being on horrific brutality against minors and these deaths as a blood stain on humanity, we instead choose to separate into our individual groups and fuel resentment.
"But from certain individuals there was a seething resentment that I had won the case, executives who were really angry that I had challenged them and won resoundingly.
The Arizona legislature passed a law in 2010 aimed at the Tucson curriculum that prohibited courses that called for the overthrow of the U.S. government, treated students as members of a group rather than individuals, or that bred ethnic resentment.
In all these cases, individuals expressed high levels of resentment.
Though this report gives voice to the resentments of powerless individuals, it shouldn't blind us to the fact that racism is at its most damaging when institutions are at fault.
"I think it is astonishingly irresponsible for anyone on the Hill to try to whip up resentment against an individual under investigation who has not yet been charged," said Reid Weingarten, a Washington defense lawyer whose client Bernard J. Ebbers, invoked the Fifth Amendment before Mr. Tauzin's committee.
