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When oppressed people become complicit in their oppression, joining the dominant class in their ideas about what we are, it is symbolic violence. Lik… - Tressie McMillan Cottom
" "When oppressed people become complicit in their oppression, joining the dominant class in their ideas about what we are, it is symbolic violence. Like all concepts, symbolic violence has a context that is important for using it to mean what we intend to mean. It is not just that internalizing the values of the dominant class violently stigmatizes us. Symbolic violence only makes sense if we accept its priors: all preferences in imperial, industrialized societies are shaped by the economic system. There aren’t any “good” preferences. There are only preferences that are validated by others, differently, based on social contexts.
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About Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom is an American writer, sociologist, and professor.
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