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It's simpler than that, and worse.
You are beneath them.
In their worldview, there is The Hierarchy,™ and everybody's role is to do as they're told by people above them. There is no other force in their moral universe. Nothing else decides what is real.
People stuck in this mindset are vicious when they have so few opportunities to be the boot instead of the face. It's identifying with the aggressor.
when education isn't liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.
t. Paulo Freire
The chain of screaming