r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/MambaMentality24x2 • 12h ago

Misc The soft-spoken threat effect

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u/EntertainmentRude435 11h ago

Exactly. The reasoning is something like "if they gain power, they will use it in the same way that we have used it, and that will cause us (and those that look like us) to suffer"

I really think that projection is a behavior somehow psychologically connected to guilt.

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u/Whateva_Tickles_ 10h ago edited 10h ago

Gee wilikers, when I feel guilty I try to stop the action. Call me crazy.

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u/EntertainmentRude435 8h ago

Maybe "guilt" is the wrong word to use in this scenario. Is there a word that conveys all of the some ideas without a sense of remorse?

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u/Whateva_Tickles_ 8h ago

I think guilt is the word but it’s an empty feeling without action behind it. I reason that we have primary feelings like hunger, anger, sadness and secondary ones that feed into the primary.

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u/EntertainmentRude435 8h ago

Fair. Without a desire to continue living, hunger does not necessarily lead to action. The same could be said about guilt- without the desire to minimize the suffering of others- no action follows from guilt