Oppression does not confer virtue but breeds potential violence in victims

Evidence

Oppression, he notices, doesn’t make people saintly, it makes them potential killers; all victims are dangerous. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 737

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 737
• XREF: connects to: Victims’ aggression gets reframed as the victim’s own deviance; Black radical violence turned inward toward collective being rather than outward against the system; Bullies’ power rests on weaknesses that victims never think to exploit — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 476 (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Enslaved people responded to violence through collaboration, avoidance, or counter-terror #exemplifies (0.70) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 183