😳 Yes, that seems like a good place to draw the line. In fact, it seems to me that the psychiatrists who performed that service, teaching torturers to suppress their feelings of guilt, were doing the exact opposite of what their mental health mandate ought to be!
"The very same people who had it constantly drummed into them that the only language they understood was that of force, now decided to express themselves with force . . . To the expression: 'All natives are the same, the colonized reply: 'All colonists are the same.'"
Given the brutality of colonization, expressions of explosive violence by the oppressed were, in his view, inevitable in the opening phase of a liberation war.
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Such an interesting prompt.Fanon traveled extensively, and a compelling part of this nuanced book is set in the DRC and Angola, so all of these places!
pickThis book was such a treat. Powerful, thought provoking, and scarily relevant despite its age. Fanon‘s poetic prose is often flowery but never loses its analytical focus. Understanding black consciousness is incredibly important and Fanon‘s displays a myriad of reasons why.
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