the people who rule over you don't see you as fully human, just return the favor
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because turning the other cheek merely ends up with you beaten up and the people doing it still in power. a victim's inaction is powerless to stop violence
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Who said anything about turning the other cheek? Just thinking that maybe dehumanizing others might not be the healthiest psychological framework to be working with.
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i meant that the whole notion of continuing or not continuing the cycle is flawed. systematic violence isn't fixed by turning the other cheek; systematic dehumanisation isn't fixed by humanising the dehumanisers; economic inequality isn't fixed by being generous to the exploiters
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in any case, i don't consider that marginalised people have any obligation to show humanity to their oppressors, and this doesn't even seem a fair demand. ultimately, we can't afford a healthy framework, and it's unhealthy to pretend we could
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I don't believe that anyone has any obligation to anything. There is no demand, only a desire to truly break free and a questioning of the logic of domination.
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this kind of "lest the oppressed become the oppressors" logic is completely detached from reality and is pretty much comic book reasoning
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The oppressed act as oppressors on a regular basis. That's how this system is self regulating. If oppression didn't replicate itself in the home, among peer groups, etc. in society then the current scale of oppression would not be feasible.
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you should develop some actual politics, i recommend starting with marx and working your way forward
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