03-09-2012, 01:12 AM
(01-23-2012, 02:57 AM)Meerie Wrote:(01-23-2012, 02:00 AM)3DMonkey Wrote: The difference between turning the other cheek and being a slave is that a slave does so reluctantly and with a vengeful heart.
So slaves who love their slavery are not enslaved? Have you heard of 'house negroes'? They were the black slaves who often loved their slavery and were totally identified with the slave-master. Malcolm X considered house negroes to be exhibiting the deepest form of enslavement, that of loving their slavery.
This definition by 3dmonkey also devalues the most challenging kind of forgiveness while overvaluing the kind of forgiveness associated with self-disrespect, self-alienation, self-abnegation, and self-hate.
I definitely cannot accept the definition. According to this definition, battered wives and stockholm syndrome victims are not enslaved, and their behaviour should in fact be encouraged and seen as a good thing.