Resistance to occupation often mirrors the violence it opposes

Evidence

What if, in a later period of socioeconomic development, these impulses have ceased to balance each other out? What if the overwhelming predominance of one, or their mutual reorganization into something far more monstrous and oppressive, inevitably imparts its own deformity to the very movement that seeks liberation from it, as muscles might develop unequally against an unequal obstacle? — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 196 (#expands, via linked claim)

The problem with lauding ”resistance” is that at the country-western clubs, it meant disorientation, racist jokes, dogs trained to bite blacks, unsatisfying weddings, and face-to-face silence. Jokes invoked a commonsense racism, sexism, and feeling of being someone’s market; but resistance to the dominant pieties surrounding race made the group more violent and uninclusive than the sum of its individual members. When the group’s focus is only on reversing and resisting, common meanings must come from elsewhere, unquestioned. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 930 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Resistance efforts can be complicit with the very exclusionary power they oppose — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1243; Resistance acts often reinscribe capitalist and bourgeois power rather than escape it — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 78; Boundary-based violence protests threats to social arrangements built on those boundaries (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Liberation movements inherit the deformity of what they oppose #expands (0.95) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 196
• Resistance-based solidarity leaves common meanings unexamined and imported from outside #complicates (0.80) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 930
• Counter-violence can prise open restrictive structures and create new possibilities #complicates (0.78)
• Boundary-based violence protests threats to social arrangements built on those boundaries #complicates (0.72)