How the Rotten Thing Works
Restimulated, we are pulled to take the different role, the role of the oppressor. The male victim may turn the abuse and invalidation originally turned on him onto a woman. This is the basis of sexism. Or a white victim may turn it on a Black or other non-white person. This is the basis of racism—right there, in the mechanisms that we had to face and discover in our individual counseling. The whole secret of how the rotten thing works has been revealed.
From page 47 of Rough Notes from Liberation I and II
(Present Time 188, July 2017)
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