If I say, "America should work on being less racist." Most US folk agree. 👍🏿 Black US folk love that I say this! But some US folk say, "Why are you attacking America?"
If I say, "The tech industry should work on being less racist." Most tech workers agreed. 👍🏿 Black tech workers love it. But some tech workers say, "Why are you attacking the tech industry?"
If I say "Scientists should work on being less racist." You already know what happens next. 🤷🏿♂️
@mekkaokereke People tacitly conceding that their model of America/tech/science is inseparable from oppression, without even noticing? It's almost as if they don't think oppression is bad.
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I wonder if it’s some form of mass Stockholm Syndrome, in relation to the state, & its power.
Such that, for some, the oppression is comforting. Because it’s familiar?
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@Vincarsi @f1337 @mekkaokereke "Learned helplessness" by itself doesn't explain why so many people are in denial and militant.
When a conservative pundit says "Why do you hate America?" to a leftist, the audience gains an obvious target for their misdirected anger. The helplessness is only there to ensure they don't attack anyone guilty.
@aebabis @f1337 @mekkaokereke I agree. There's so much more to it. Patterns that are correlated range everywhere from personal beliefs and family dynamics to external pressures like lead leeching pipes, or car-centric architecture diminishing the ability for community to form naturally, or the fact that there's never been another time in history where the average person has had so little control over so much of their time. And potential causal links are still being studied
@f1337 @mekkaokereke @aebabis the term you're looking for, I believe, is "learned helplessness". Basically, when a trauma is repeatedly inflicted on a being in a way that prohibits escape or resistance, the nervous system stops triggering fight/flight and starts going into freeze or shutdown instead. The body has adapted to surviving the trauma instead of avoiding it. But this can result in losing the inclination to escape entirely, even if an exit is opened after the conditioning