I am sorry. As a fellow teacher, hate that.

6/ Hating the underprivileged for fighting to gain rights and respect because you feel you're being stripped of things you were "entitled" to by existing is a mark of the Alt-Right. Iago is one of the biggest examples of, for lack of a better term, a Proud Boy before they existed.

5/ Othello fights for his rights against his society's transgressions, even if he's an agent of an imperialist regime, and Iago HATES that. He hates someone he views as not entitled to these privileges, rising in society, taking what Iago feels is Iago's birthright

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AND Othello gave a second promotion to Cassio, who Iago felt was bookish and weebish and not a "real man" like Iago. Again, Iago speaks of entitlement, "I know my price, I am worth no worse a place."

3/ Othello on the other hand is a Moor in 16th-century Venice, a violent and oppressively racist situation. But he's married to a nobleborn Venician woman, loved by the Duke and the Senate, and gained the promotion Iago was vying for.

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He's a native born Venetian man. He's married to a woman from a highborn family. By every right and standard, he shouldn't be as miserable as he is. But he's not as successful as he wants to be. His wife hates him. His friends are easily manipulated but they're not true friends and equals.

@ianflynnbkc.bsky.social I am SO JAZZED by this. I think this is the first time Sonic's used Chaos Control since Sonic '06. Is that right?