Somebodies and Nobodies

Fuller describes the various forms of rankism: scientists taking credit for the work of assistants, nursing home staff treating elderly patients poorly, priests sexually abusing churchgoers, etc. Rankism is an assault on personal dignity and should not be tolerated, says Fuller. According to the author, the condition exists because "rank is linked to power and power protects those who hold it" and "high rank inhibits protests and shields perpetrators." Fuller provides numerous examples, from family dynamics to corporate settings.

- Publisher's Weekly Review of the book Somebodies and Nobodies

I enjoyed this book but I don't think he went far enough. You really are a nobody if no one even counts you when you die at the hands of the powerful. No one knows how many native North Americans were killed, they didn't count the African slaves that died on the ships and were tossed overboard like chum, no one erects monuments to the 6 million non-Jews that the state considered defective (Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals, mentally and physically hurt etc.) that were also starved and gassed in camps by the Germans, the history books don't mention that Stalin imposed a famine-genocide on the Ukrainians which took 10 million lives in 1932-33. So those of you who list the dead American soldiers in Iraq, how about a total of the citizens of that country who breathe no more?

ps. I just read a book about the Ukrainian genocide and the Russians killed the cats and dogs and even the birds in the trees so that these people would starve. Ah, humans are God's pride and joy, that is why he made them in his own image!!!!