I was dealing with some memories of people being unnecessarily biased and degrading and then something interrupted that thought when this phrase came up:
"Feeling controlled."
This is what's tragic: People who have dealt with feeling controlled will also try to control others in ways that are abusive, and it's a big problem in educational institutions.
People allowed the institution to control their lives so they could obtain status and money. They got something and they got praised for what they got and now they're part of the institution.
But now there's a pecking order.
All the authoritarian environments they were exposed to in their schools and their churches and all that stuff that they never healed from?
It comes out.
This is where their empathy and compassion for others begins to die.
They also need to find others with their same status to reinforce this behavior so that they feel okay in participating in it.
A lot of tenured people at educational institutions could have quite a bit in common with ICE agents, sadly.
They're just doing what they're supposed to do. They're just doing what they're being paid to do.
The dark side of being controlled is that people become controlling.
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