- Silent earthquakes are a thing
- “We did not build this broken house, but it is our house now”
- Castes are about power, not feelings
- In America, race is a strawman that maintains the caste
- Virginia colony had a special form of enslavement more extreme than in England
- We are shocked when the actors do not match the expected containers
- Rooting out offenders helps us think we solved the problem but does little
- (Offenders are people who crossed a line. Excising them pushing them out of the system… but the system still remains.)
- Color does not indicate race (multiple “races” have the same shades)
- Color is a fact; Race is a social construct
- Caste is not inherently hatred
- Casting is based on
- Assumption of divine will and laws of nature
- Heritability
- “If you can act your way out of it, then it is class not caste”
- Endogamy and marriage control
- (Restricting marriage to intra caste)
- Purity vs pollution
- Their degradation justified their degradation
- Occupational hierarchy
- Dehumanization and stigma
- Terror as enforcement, cruelty as control
- Inherent superiority vs inherit inferiority
- Dominant group threat syndrome
- True Alphas do not need to yell
- Omega’s act as a jester and pack glue
- Because they can poke fun at everyone, they can defuse and mellow the group
- Culture is built to subordinate castes successes more than almost anything else
- “There is never ‘caste’ only ‘castes’”
- Caste usually trumps class
- We usually tend to defend our caste even if sacrificing self-interest
- Tolerance is not love; we need to love, not just tolerate
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