jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world to Quotes@lemmy.ca · 26 days ago"The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed." -- Simone de Beauvoirlemmy.worldimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1image"The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed." -- Simone de Beauvoirlemmy.worldjimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world to Quotes@lemmy.ca · 26 days agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-text
“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.” – Simone de Beauvoir Links: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Simone-de-Beauvoir https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauvoir/ https://www.biography.com/scholars-educators/simone-de-beauvoir
minus-squarejimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down6·26 days agoThe owner-class divides the working class. We are funding and enabling genocides and forever wars. We know, and history will show which oppressed accomplices sided with the oppressor.
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·26 days ago The owner-class divides the working class. And yet this quote places blame on some of the oppressed rather than the oppressor. Who knows what hardships the sympathizer has faced that makes them sell out. They’re not a disease, they’re a symptom.
The owner-class divides the working class.
We are funding and enabling genocides and forever wars.
We know, and history will show which oppressed accomplices sided with the oppressor.
And yet this quote places blame on some of the oppressed rather than the oppressor. Who knows what hardships the sympathizer has faced that makes them sell out. They’re not a disease, they’re a symptom.