The Oppressor Creates Resistance

On the true barrier to peace

If there were no violent resistance to oppression, the oppressor would create it.

The entire system of oppression is built on the premise of the other, which inherently requires dehumanization and supremacy to justify itself. If those inside could see humanity across the wall, the system would collapse.

The system needs its enemies. Resistance may emerge naturally, and it may also be directly supported by the system itself, and both can be true at once. As a matter of survival, the system will empower extremists, crush moderates, silence peaceful voices, and use total control over movement and life to coerce cooperation and fragment any unified opposition. The goal is to ensure that only violence survives, because violence justifies and manufactures the story needed to keep going.

Nonviolent resistance cannot be demonized. It strips away the story, and conscience has nothing left to hide behind.

I was raised inside this mechanism, and from birth the world divided into us and them, light and dark, good and evil. I eventually recognized that the division was not a response to threat but the product being manufactured.

I became aware that I was being hijacked into perpetuating the system, and that recognition comes with shame. It is easier to keep blaming the enemy across the wall than to reckon with what I was participating in. To see the mechanism requires releasing the identity built on division, seeking the humanity the wall exists to hide, and facing the system rather than drowning in guilt.

This process cost me family, belonging, safety, and identity, but it ended the dysregulated existence of fearing that I would be found out.

I saw that the barrier to peace was never the people across the wall. It is the system that needs us to believe they are.

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سلام

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