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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's simpler than that, and worse.

You are beneath them.

In their worldview, there is The Hierarchy,™ and everybody's role is to do as they're told by people above them. There is no other force in their moral universe. Nothing else decides what is real.

People stuck in this mindset are vicious when they have so few opportunities to be the boot instead of the face. It's identifying with the aggressor.

[–] porcariasagrada@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

when education isn't liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.

t. Paulo Freire

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

The chain of screaming