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"Some Chinese students in the U.S. often don't realize that it's possible to be both victim and oppressor at the same time," Oppression is like domestic abuse:
by causi 5y ago
"Some Chinese students in the U.S. often don't realize that it's possible to be both victim and oppressor at the same time,"
Oppression is like domestic abuse: being the victim of it makes you more likely to perpetrate it yourself, not less.
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- xg15 5y agoIsn't this completely at odds with all the usual anti-racism arguments?
- causi 5y agoWhether it agrees with them or not, that's just how humans work. You abuse them, individually or as a group or as a nation, and they tend to abuse others. Post-colonial African nations oppress their people, Israel mistreats Palestinians, post-colonial China killed millions of its own people, post-Tsarist Russia had the purges and the Holodomor, the US occupies and abuses Haiti and then when they leave the Garde d'Haiti spends decades doing the same thing. It goes on and on and on.