Reggae came to be during a time of subjugation to Britain?

Mainstream perception of Reggae Music

How easy it is to fall in the same trap as the oppression ideology. This is a attempt not to understand it, put to oppose and to judge it.

So it is important to distinguish the 2. That is the big pitfall of justice seeking. It needs a victim and a purpetrator.

Active oppression implies a motive and and intention to oppress.

for - key insight - Russian oppression - zero chance of protest and uprising

key insight - Russian oppression - zero chance of protest and uprising - Putin is so ruthless as a dictator that anyone who protests risks death. - Under these conditions, noone dares to organize - If there is a synchronized movement, Putin can be overthrown, but Putin's brutality insures that no such synchronization can happen

to - Jake Broe interview - Russian citizen complacency - like German citizens allowing millions of Jews to die - https://hyp.is/sXpZth5fEe-Xtj_-DhT_BQ/docdrop.org/video/XX3zU5QNvCw/

This is just projection. People had always struggled to limit authority and in the English speaking world, this officially begins with Magna Carta.

What the Constitution does prohibit is billiting, which frames this discussion in a different light.

Assimilation as a cycle: changing our own ways of doing in order to fit in doesn't just help us to "escape oppression" because part of fitting in means adopting ways of doing that include acting out oppression.

https://connect.springerpub.com/highwire_display/entity_view/node/136595/content_details

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_of_domination

This passage brings forth the question whether she was suffering during her relationship either directly from husband or indirectly from the cultural hardships married women faced especially in the past.

DrPH, M. D. H., M. D. (2022, January 11). The Folly of School Openings as a Zero-Sum Game. The American Prospect. https://prospect.org/api/content/4a1fc36e-7263-11ec-9e7d-12f1225286c6/

O [[Βιλλιάρδος]] επαναβεβαιώνει πως δεν ειναι αρνητής του ιού,

Εδώ ο [[Βιλλιάρδος]] αναφέρεται στον ναζιστικό αντισιμιτισμό - σε μια πλήρη αντιστροφή ρόλων στο ιδεολογικό ταμπλό.

O [[Βιλλιάρδος]] δεν ειναι αρνητής του ιού, αλλα ως μελος της Ελληνικήες Λύσης, σαν τον "βρεγμένο στη βροχή", σκεφτεται ελεύθερα χωρίς να φοβαται μην τον χαραχτηρίσουν "ψέκα".

Ο [[Βιλλιάρδος]] διαγιγνώσκει πως προωθείται ο φασιμός από ακροδεξιάς λογικής μέτρα - η αντιφατικότητα του να το διαγιγνώσκε ενα μέλος ενός τετοιου μορφώματος.

(Harry) It's difficult to see when we're all being oppressed by the white supremacy we growing up in...

Our tools and the systems that surround us have a direct effect on our brain structure but psychopharmacology places the burden of fixing systemic issues on the individual by medicating those that do not fit the systemic mold. The drugs are basically the system subduing any individual that might bring out the contradictions in the "machine" and so the simplest approach is to "subdue" them with drugs.

This all seems pretty sinister and inhumane to me.

Search does not merely present pages but structures knowledge, and the results retrieved in a commercial search engine create their own particular material reality. Ranking is itself information that also reflects the political, social, and cultural values of the society that search engine companies operate within, a notion that is often obscured in traditional information science studies. Noble said that Google representatives usually say either that it’s the computer’s fault or that it’s an anomaly they can’t control.

Noble describes entering the term “beautiful,” and shows a screen of pictures of white people. She entered “ugly”, and the results were a racial mix.

She search for “three black teenagers” in 2010, and getting mug shots as the result. Then searched “black girls” in that same year brought the viewer to porn sites.

Noble focuses on degrading stereotypes of women of African descent as a prime example of these prejudices, which translate to overt racism.

Noble describes entering the term “beautiful,” and shows a screen of pictures of white people. She entered “ugly”, and the results were a racial mix.

She search for “three black teenagers” in 2010, and getting mug shots as the result. Then searched “black girls” in that same year brought the viewer to porn sites.

Noble focuses on degrading stereotypes of women of African descent as a prime example of these prejudices, which translate to overt racism.

Search does not merely present pages but structures knowledge, and the results retrieved in a commercial search engine create their own particular material reality. Ranking is itself information that also reflects the political, social, and cultural values of the society that search engine companies operate within, a notion that is often obscured in traditional information science studies. Noble said that Google representatives usually say either that it’s the computer’s fault or that it’s an anomaly they can’t control.

Search does not merely present pages but structures knowledge, and the results retrieved in a commercial search engine create their own particular material reality. Ranking is itself information that also reflects the political, social, and cultural values of the society that search engine companies operate within, a notion that is often obscured in traditional information science studies. Noble said that Google representatives usually say either that it’s the computer’s fault or that it’s an anomaly they can’t control.

Search does not merely present pages but structures knowledge, and the results retrieved in a commercial search engine create their own particular material reality. Ranking is itself information that also reflects the political, social, and cultural values of the society that search engine companies operate within, a notion that is often obscured in traditional information science studies. Noble said that Google representatives usually say either that it’s the computer’s fault or that it’s an anomaly they can’t control.

Noble describes entering the term “beautiful,” and shows a screen of pictures of white people. She entered “ugly”, and the results were a racial mix.

She search for “three black teenagers” in 2010, and getting mug shots as the result. Then searched “black girls” in that same year brought the viewer to porn sites.

Noble focuses on degrading stereotypes of women of African descent as a prime example of these prejudices, which translate to overt racism.

The use of the phrase "claim the right to be unhappy" here is most indicative of the type of culture that the film created. Emotions are no longer inherent or natural, they are something you must claim or fight for. To have "the right" to something inherently means that it is not simply given. It makes the issue one of possession rather than oppression. It's not that the new society is oppressing the emotions, but rather that they are no longer claiming/possessing them.

I noticed this in the excerpt above, too. The binary nature of her worldview is something that I've heard her critiqued for before, as it is a pretty restrictive way to view the complex gears of oppression.

This reminds me of Iris Young's "Five Faces of Oppression." Young argues that we often neglect to see the many faces of oppression, and that we misrepresent reality by comparing dissimilar experiences of oppression as existing under the same general umbrella of subjectivity. Anyone who experiences even one face of oppression is oppressed, but many individuals and groups experience oppression differently because they may experience different combinations of the faces of oppression. One face of oppression which often goes overlooked is "powerlessness."

Powerlessness is a distinction between technical freedom and actual self-possession and choice. Examples Young gives are that although we are technically allowed to choose our employer, many employees are placed at the bottom of the totem pole, where they are dictated to, rather than consulted about their own work. Those who work menial jobs, for example, in which the minutia of their jobs (what to do and how to do it) are strictly controlled are powerless. In contrast, professionals such as doctors, teachers, managers, etc. are given a degree of freedom and choice about how to best go about their work, and they might even have employees working under them, whose work they get to control. This freedom gives one "respectability" in the eyes of society and one's own eyes. If someone does not have access to professionalization, they are denigrated for this lack of "respectability," by the implication that they are inferior to professionals. This, of course, becomes a vicious economic and psychological cycle.

This system of oppression through powerlessness is what Woolf is referencing here. Although she is employed, society has denied her the freedom allotted to most literary professionals, most of whom are men. She is employed, but she is not a professional because she is denied the freedom and respectability that being a professional connotes.

Okay again back to Lorde... Her concern was that feminist theorists had coalesced around a consensus that left out the very voices of those whose difference was essential to the project of overturning the patriarchy. Lorde asked, “What does it mean when the tools of a racist patriarchy are used to examine the fruits of that same patriarchy?” I guess I see a similar flaw in the white abolitionists' dismissal of Douglass, in that oppression cannot be disrupted using the logic that justifies oppression, i.e. the use of Douglass as a black man as "tool" in himself and the exclusion of his very relevant experience from their dialogue; are these not other forms of bondage? Also thinking about how "tool" can be interpreted here, i.e. tool as logic, rhetoric, government, Christianity, whiteness, Douglass himself, etc.

I've been a big fan of the zombie/living dead sub-genre since I was pretty young, and the interest has grown even more in the last 12+ years. Overtime, I have wondered whether this sub-genre, our fascination with zombies/infected apocalyptic themes/elements, has deeper meaning for us that can point back to the innate nature of othering or ingroup/outgroup. There are stories of genocide and wars in literature throughout time and across every culture. Humankind has an extensive history that involves the oppression and marginalization of many different civilizations and people. We have an intimate relationship with war and conflict. In the past, it may have not been so usual to see apocalyptic literature with themes that target a certain race or groups of people, even a race that was deemed inferior or less than fully human, due to the prevailing ideologies and worldviews during those times. But the same attitude and worldview is unacceptable today, at least to many. Survivors of the apocalypse can't go all feral and Purge on another group of people, at least not on such a wide scale. However, zombies/infected seem to take that place. Zombies serve a similar function. Not only is there the classic world-ending event that has existed in religious literature for millennia, but survivors get to maintain human supremacy (rather than racial) over non-humans. It becomes unacceptable because these things are no longer conscious or recognized as a living, sentiment human.

I don't know why, but this sentence almost made me cry. It is so effectual and concise. The web is a living thing and we are limiting its potential. Same as we do to people through oppression.