The oppressor ‘housed’ in the people can turn them violent with a single denunciation.

Evidence

A student once told me how, in a certain Latin American peasant community, a fanatical priest had denounced the presence in the community of two “communists” who were “endangering” what he called the “Catholic faith.” That very night the peasants, to a man, joined together to burn alive the two simple elementary school teachers who had been educating the local children. Perhaps that priest had seen in the house of the teachers a book with a bearded man on the cover … — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 605

Categorization

• QUESTION: A chilling case of teachers killed by the very community they educated — does Freire leave room for how problem-posing education would have changed this outcome?