There’s this hypothesis in social justice psychology that in an oppressive relationship the oppressed cannot find liberation alone. The oppressor is also trapped and both have to find liberation together (iirc that’s the logic behind “none of us is free until all of us are free”)
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Have you ever read Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Freire? While he believes that certain oppressed types cannot find liberation alone, it's because their oppressors have distorted their worldview so much that the oppressed have trouble seeing their way out, like in .
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I've browsed it... and owned a copy for a while. But eventually never did properly read it. Way too inside baseball woke text for me. I had/still have very fundamental objections to "critical pedagogy".

