Internalized Oppression
Most damage done by oppression is done by its internalized form, in which the victims continue to oppress themselves, oppress each other within the group of the oppressed, and, as a group, attempt to oppress the members of other groups who are oppressed in a way similar to how their own group is oppressed.
The person outside a particular oppression can be powerfully effective against the internalized form of the oppression.
From page 71 of “What We Think We Know That Would Be Good for the Rest of the World to Understand” in An Unbounded Future
(Present Time 202, January 2021)
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