Oppression functions by domesticating and submerging consciousness.

Evidence

One of the gravest obstacles to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings’ consiousness. Functionally, oppression is domesticating. To no longer be prey to its force, one must emerge from it and turn upon it. This can be done only by means of the praxis: reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 121

Categorization

• DEFINE: The phrase ‘functionally, oppression is domesticating’ plus the definition of praxis — both load-bearing for the redesign.
• XREF: Praxis as inseparable reflection+action is the reader’s stated key concept; this paragraph gives the canonical definition. — connects to: Enlightenment eliminated negation from language, silencing the oppressed. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 791; Reactionary thought explicitly naturalized women’s confinement to housework; Extreme oppression could extinguish ontological freedom while leaving biological life — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 213 (+3 more)