“How hard they work to define the slave as inhuman, savage, when in fact the definition of the inhuman describes overwhelmingly the punisher. When they rest, exhausted, between bouts of lashing, the punishment is more sadistic than corrective. If sustained whipping tires the lasher, and he or she must take a series of breaks before continuing, what good does its duration do to the whipped? Such extreme pain seems to be designed for the pleasure of the one with the lash. The necessity of rendering the slave a foreign species appears to be a desperate attempt to confirm one’s own self as normal. The urgency of distinguishing between those who belong to the human race and those who are decidedly non-human is so powerful the spotlight turns away and shines not on the object of degradation but on its creator. Even assuming exaggeration by the slaves, the sensibility of slave owners is gothic. It’s as though they are shouting, “I am not a beast! I’m not a beast! I torture the helpless to prove I am not weak.” The danger of sympathizing with the stranger is the possibility of becoming a stranger. To lose one’s racial-ized rank is to lose one’s own valued and enshrined difference.” ― Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others

    • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.ee
      shield
      OPM
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      19 days ago

      Dragonfaggot @discuss.tchncs.de

      Created account for one single Lemmy comment of 5 words, to attack with Russian information warfare against !CounterSurkov@lemm.ee information warfare education.

      Also promotes use of “faggot” in username.

    • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.ee
      shield
      OPM
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      19 days ago

      “We have adopted in the modern world a sort of a relativistic ethic … Most people can’t stand up for their convictions, because the majority of people might not be doing it. See, everybody’s not doing it, so it must be wrong. And since everybody is doing it, it must be right. So a sort of numerical interpretation of what’s right. But I’m here to say to you this morning that some things are right and some things are wrong. Eternally so, absolutely so. It’s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It’s wrong in America, it’s wrong in Germany, it’s wrong in Russia, it’s wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it’s wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong. It’s wrong to throw our lives away in riotous living. No matter if everybody in Detroit is doing it, it’s wrong. It always will be wrong, and it always has been wrong. It’s wrong in every age and it’s wrong in every nation. Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary. Some things in this universe are absolute.”

      Woah, someone’s off their meds.

      You think Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is off his medication?

      No medication has been able to treat the “Mass Psychosis” of the United States of America, where I am living since year 2013. I’ve been hospitalized over a dozen times, and nothing the medical community has offered deals with the problem of Kremlin information warfare unleashed on the world wide web since March 2013

      5,000 alternate-reality fiction patterns https://www.facebook.com/konstantin.rykov/posts/10210643558675446

      “Британские учёные из Cambridge Analytica предложили сделать из 5 тысяч существующих человеческих психотипов - “идеальный образ” возможного сторонника Трампа. Затем… положить этот образ обратно на всё психотипы и таким образом подобрать универсальный ключик к любому и каждому.” … “Следующим шагом необходимо было разработать систему передачи задач и информации, чтобы никакая гэбуха и АНБ не смогли её спалить.” … “Дальше оставалось только загрузить эти данные в информационные потоки и социальные сети.”

       

      ::: ___________________
      “The necessity of rendering the slave a foreign species appears to be a desperate attempt to confirm one’s own self as normal.”