This is postcolonial theory for southern white people. This is literally the exact logic that Franz Fanon uses in black skin white masks to explain the plight of African Americans after the end of slavery...
https://twitter.com/worldviewconvos/status/1339973310633943042
Replace the word *conquer* with the word *enslave* and this is something Franz Fanon could have written:
"On the cultural front, how much of that caving is due to being an *enslaved* people conditioned into accepting imposed guilt and living with the memory of the *enslaving*?"
"On the cultural front, how much of that caving is due to being an *enslaved* people conditioned into accepting imposed guilt and living with the memory of the *enslaving*?"
The *reasoning* here is bad. The *reasoning* is the problem.
Arguing that society conditioned southerners to fold by invoking the memory of losing the civil war is pretty much arguing that the south suffers from "internalized oppression."
Arguing that society conditioned southerners to fold by invoking the memory of losing the civil war is pretty much arguing that the south suffers from "internalized oppression."
It's the same logic. It's cashed out differently, but it still argues conservative political losses are due to southerners being conditioned by their oppressors (the north) to accept the guilt and shame of being conqueres and then to spinelessly cave.
Internalized oppression....
Internalized oppression....
According to Robin Diangelo is: "Internalizing and acting out (often unintentionally) the constant messages that you and your group are inferior to the dominant group and thus deserving of your lower position"
This is the same damn thing:
This is the same damn thing:
We can't do this people. It's bad reasoning and it opens the door to all kinds of absolute nonsense.
You can't fight wokeness with wokeness
You can't fight wokeness with wokeness
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