Rational subordinates enforce dominants’ violence on their own group

Evidence

Self-interested, rational subordinates are also routinely induced to act as the dominant group’s henchmen in carrying out malevolent actions against other members of their own group, or even to inflict physical injuries on themselves or their children – with benevolence, not malice – in order to be successful players by the rules of the game in which they have been ensnared by their relations with dominants. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 683

Categorization

• QUESTION: What concrete historical cases does the author have in mind — antebellum slave drivers, ghetto leaders, colonial intermediaries?
• DEEPTHINKING: A morally dense idea: subordinated people inflicting harm on their own group out of benevolent adaptation, not malice — reframes complicity as structural enslavement.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 683
• XREF: connects to: Whoever controls the institutions and men of violence can impose social order — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 317