Peach
@jmdz
Peach
@jmdz
Comedy is dead
In the worst of these conditions, knowledge is wielded as a tool of power through which education systems can actively oppress entire populations, preventing the awareness of their own agency in their lives.
When oppressed people become complicit in their oppression, joining the dominant class in their ideas about what we are, it is symbolic violence.
Subjectivity
The same goes, of course, for human beings. The distancing effect of language facilitates exploitation, cruelty, murder, and genocide. When the other party to a relationship is a mere member of a generic category, be it “customer,” “terrorist,” or “employee,” exploitation or murder comes much more easily. Racial epithets serve the same purpose: we
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