Joanna wrote:
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> For example, oppressed minorities are routinely told that they are inferior, stupid, ugly, incompetent, and every bad thing that you can think of. Yet some, are able to step out of the social hallucination and fully feel their shared and whole humanity, and revolt against this treatment. How would this be possible if truth were completely socially constructed?
Bad choice of example. Prior to the last couple of centuries there was no such thing as an "oppressed minority"; no one ever bothered to tell the slaves in the Egyptian gold mines that they were stupid or ugly; they were just told to keep working away or else. Oppressed minorities only exist in bourgeois democracies.
Carrol