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Analogies are never perfect.

But this one feels right to me in the broad sense that oppression breeds violence which breeds oppression which breeds... You all get the point.

At some point, the justifications for both sides fall apart because the behaviors on both sides don't change. The real question is how to manage the generational trauma that such situations inevitably create. As our current US politics show us, we as a nation have still not fully processed the trauma of slavery for both black and white people. Fear, distrust, and righteous justification still dog our body politic.

Anyway, thank you for this. I found it helpful.

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