About Oppression and Internalized Oppression
We know:
That every person in the present societies operates within rigid roles fixed by accumulated distress patterns, both in oppressive roles and in oppressed roles
That no one agrees to function as oppressor, except by first having been oppressed and then manipulated into the other role in the distress recording
That oppression applied externally can become, through the medium of the distress recording, internalized oppression, in which the person continues to invalidate, hurt, or oppress themself or fellow members of their group or other equally oppressed groups with which the oppression has urged them to compete.
From page 59 of “Possessors of Vast Treasures,” in The Rest of Our Lives
(Present Time 209, October 2022)
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