"My grandfather was merely part of the middle class that supported and legitimized the brutal regime in question," isn't the absolution you seem to think it is. To the sizeable population of the have-nots, "I'm just providing the best for my family," amidst such persecution sounds a lot like, "F*ck you, got mine." My (futile) hope is that people who are aware of this dynamic would put less energy into seeking vengeance and more into looking at analogous circumstances in the US and joining with their fellow educated professionals to not repeat the mistakes of such gross inequality and bougie apathy.

And while, "They were mean to my mom's stuffed animal," is comically evil, in a way, the maids throwing out my teddy bear in the name of our hotel's efficient running when I left it in the room upon checking out doesn't damn Capitalism wholesale. Sometimes people do stupid, mean, but ultimately innocuous things in the interests of keeping it moving, no matter the overarching system. It sucks, I want my teddy back, but my take-away is not advocating to punish the state of North Carolina socioeconomically until Republicans are purged from the government. That would be unhinged.