The oppressed’s hatred of life fuels recurring puritanical violence

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Thus, here is the oppressor oppressed in turn; and the men who do violence to him in their turn become masters, tyrants, and executioners: in revolting, the oppressed are metamorphosed into a blind force, a brutal fatality; the evil which divides the world is carried out in their own hearts. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 98 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State-sponsored violence channels a resentful hatred of living bodies; Violent revolt infects the oppressed with the oppressor’s own evil — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 98; Oppressors recast the oppressed as the violent ones — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 134 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• State-sponsored violence channels a resentful hatred of living bodies #corroborates (0.95)
• Oppression does not confer virtue but breeds potential violence in victims #corroborates (0.85) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 737
• Violent revolt infects the oppressed with the oppressor’s own evil #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 98
• Oppressors recast the oppressed as the violent ones #complicates (0.75) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 134
• Oppression begins in an act of violence and shapes both oppressors and oppressed alike #expands (0.75) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 140
• Persecuted victims reproduce the power they fear against others #expands (0.75)
• Centuries of oppression produce physiological violence in the colonized #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 71
• The oppressed carry an internalized image of the oppressor producing fatalism #complicates (0.70) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 148