Oppressors recast the oppressed as the violent ones

Evidence

For the oppressors, however, it is always the oppressed (whom they obviously never call “the oppressed” but—depending on whether they are fellow countrymen or not—“those people” or “the blind and envious masses” or “savages” or “natives” or “subversives”) who are disaffected, who are “violent,""barbaric,” “wicked,” or “ferocious” when they react to the violence of the oppressors. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 134

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing note that ‘living people can be silenced by exploitation and poverty’ — labeling the subjugated as the aggressors. — connects to: The oppressed’s hatred of life fuels recurring puritanical violence; Oppression chains the oppressor as much as the oppressed. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1370; Oppressors project faults onto the oppressed to justify their own domination — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1758 (+1 more)