Violence by the oppressed does not justify original aggression against them
Evidence
When a rapist is choking a woman and she screams and kicks and strikes out, can you say to the world, “Look! She is kicking me?” — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 504
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to framing of asymmetric power in the law-merchant and arbitration materials where the weaker party’s defensive action is recast as the originating aggression. — connects to: Palestinian rage could be channeled toward rather than against the oppressed — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1446; Oppressed people will rebel regardless of rulers’ divine claims — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 281; the MOC “The Violence That Builds: How Modern Order Is Forged, Not Broken, by Force”