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Update: 2025 Oct 28 - I include a couple links here to articles on madinamerica.com but the community is endorsing ideologies which are contradicting to what's reasonable; namely there is idea of abolishing involuntary commitment but no logical alternative is given so it's a point to ad hominem any dissenters to their beatnick posit. Incidently, I had a bad experience while in a hospital too where an orderly did a groin-grind against my thigh while forcing me down to the floor. It was a retaliation since I had escaped earlier and my reaction to the assault gave them excuse to four-point me for a couple days. That was Christmas, 1993. They didn't start pinching me or anything while I was restrained which is what some people I knew would do under the circumstances, though. Of course in those people's reasoning it'd be my fault since I allowed all that to happen to me and it was just way too tempting for them to not take advantage of the situation and have fun tormenting me. Serious! People figure I must exaggerate but of course they might be the same kind of people who'd participate in the torment to teach me that sort of thing could happen to a person in that position (type thing).

In an attempt to establish credibility for referring to myself as a "social scientist" I figured that I'd offer an introduction. Oh, you thought that I'd try to use the word "sociologist", didn't you! - oh, haha - so I'd get the "evils of socialism" rant and I'd then stand accused of being a communist ... of course I'm not, but it'd put me on the defensive ... it's like fighting your way out of a paper bag, but what's so hard about that? The question is how you got into the paper bag in the first place; by being cordial & accommodating & harmonious, but of course that reveals a fear of rejection, banishment. Reveal a weakness or vulnerability then sadistic people will have a way to exploit & extort, and have a source of entertainment. (See: Kafkatrapping.)

I am an autodidact and have some relatable formal education, but also I have been informally, but specifically & purposefully, educated in regards to the application of the guarantee of equal protection of law that the U.S. Constitution Fourteenth Amendment (is meant to) provide.

Here's an introduction to my take on sociology (a rough outline)

(To exert control over others ⇾ oppression ⇾ benefaction ⇾ oppression ⇾ benefaction ⇾ isolation ⇾ dependency ⇾ subjugation)

  • Humans' needs: subsistence, clothing, shelter (⇽ and physical safety is implied therein with the latter).
  • Anyone or entity that has control of access to those needs can subjugate another ⇾ render them subservient.
  • With a group the oppressor can provide freely to one and restrict or deny another, which creates strife (safety becomes arbitrary).
  • A way to manipulate a person's feelings of acceptance is to be dismissive of their accomplishments (as mundane, ordinary, etc.) but validate trivial feats or validate accomplishments in a misinterpreted &/or embellished fashion. (Patronize and placate.) The point will be to put a person on defensive and discombobulate them which effectively suppresses their free speech.
  • A person can be coerced into compromising values/principles and then that action can be publicized by the group to be used to discredit (ad hominem†) the person to erode their feelings of acceptance. The person's reason for feeling unaccepted then can be deliberately misinterpreted and misconstrued. (At this point the group can introduce an idea of a new action for the person to undertake to be accepted by the group.)
    † Note: Sometimes a person's motivations can be revealing. It's known that people will get involved with politics (for example) in order to protect or even conceal their own activities. (Similar to a guilty criminal injecting themselves into a police investigation.) So ad hominem tactics can be useful too.
  • A lackey may supplicant the oppressor for relief, sympathize with & abet the oppressor ... etc. (⇾ brainwash, cults, etc.) ... Here it is described as "Tertiary oppression" (pg. 3 of PDF under subheading: "Types of Oppression")
  • Oh! & of course the ol' tried & true collective punishment (or threat of, to intimidate) can be used by the oppressor (or lackey†). (†In my scapegoated.net situation I had tried to convince my assigned VA housing case manager that he could help by getting a HUD re-inspection for my unit to pressure the mngr into repairing the opener for the handicap accessibility door & he said "I have twenty-five other vets in there that would have to move if it fails inspection." ... I'm serious! The man actually said that. He wasn't a vet, though, so his point was to concede to culture. Don't make waves, type thing.)
  • Traditional activity of "hazing", and similar behaviors are indicative of reinforcement of oppressive hierarchy (as I'll describe it here) but simply it's a way to induce conformity & loyalty to the group. A desire for acceptance, approval, and inclusion of the group for sense of safety is what's exploited.
  • A common tactic of "learned helplessness" is described in this article by Priya Nalkur, Ed.D, ""The Emotional Toll of Weaponized Incompetence" | Psychology Today, can be utilized and is a form of physical abuse. The fact that people get frustrated and can be more careless with their own physical wellbeing is exploited. Of course admonishment of the abused person is a subsequent component to belittle them.
  • The concept of the "law of triviality" is also pertinent now in regards to online discussions where there can be a point of attrition to undermine a person's positivity about a subject, avocation, social cause, etc. with an onslaught of badgering & rendering a minor issue as unresolvable to impede progress toward completion of a goal. Of course if there is success in the behavior then the original idea/goal can be culturally appropriated (or stolen) but often would be corrupted, deprived of any original ethical motivation. (I'm careful to not attempt to paraphrase an opponents position in a more simple phrasing since it could be removed from the context I presented it in and attributed to me as outright saying it instead. ← There's topics in online discussions where that becomes immensely important!)
  • There is also the effect of language used in communication. An oppressive person or entity can make a point to not use profanity at all in order to exert a superiority affectation. Someone can be derisive, belittling, patronizing, etc. by not necessarily vulgar words. Although a person "shouldn't let someone get to them" there is the underlying intention to hurt feelings & that's hurtful since there is a malicious purpose. There is implication that the receiver deserves to be berated. Sound does affect humans on a physical level too by the way our hearing works, is the point.
  • The same could be said of human vision too since humans process colors from our retina (cone cells) that we use for color perception. We have trichromatic color vision, with significant response to red, green and blue light stimuli. So there is unavoidable mental process we all experience regarding what we see that is based on light waves that penetrate our eyes.
  • Along with aforementioned Kafka-trapping, the concept of parapraxis can also be used by someone who is sadistic when communicating with an oppressed, disadvantaged person. Coupled with the "Dunning–Kruger effect, people who are critical of another person might deliberately accuse a person of meaning something other than what they're actually saying. Based on bias and jealousy, a listener might tend to insist that a person is using euphemism, or like coded language to express themselves. Not uncommon when I was a young man was people would allude to an idea that just about anything said could be a sexual innuendo. Often meant in a jovial way, just to tease (ridicule) another person. Fundamental attribution error is pertinent here because, in the midst of the torment, a sadistic person will purposefully misconstrue an oppressed person's reason for their resulting distress. That is where the crux of the issue is because the intended maliciousness, under the guise of "just joking", gets annoying. There can be a goal to frustrate a person to belittle them. The provoked retaliation will be used to discredit the distressed person. A form of the word "provoke" is "provocative", as in provocative language (a.k.a. pushing someone's buttons), and that word, "provocative", is most often associated with sex. (See how it works?)

Other current relevant behavioral/mental health advocacy information

Brief list of popular related sociology studies & experiments

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