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All The Feels (Oppression Through Fear (Get Out get out
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All The Feels
Oppression Through Fear
The Affective Politics of Fear 
Fear creates the oppression and the border which separates the oppressed from the ones with power. The one being fear does not necessarily need to be the one in power, rather it would be the one that is being oppressed. People fear oppressed, such as black people, and sustain their oppression because of their fear. The fear can stem from stereotypes and the history between the two parties. This leads to oppression methods such as racial profiling. An example is after 9/11 when people of Middle Eastern descent were more likely to be detained even though they have weak links to any terrorist network just because people feared many Middle Eastern people. Fear can lead people to imagine many horrific events that cause many to take certain actions to prevent these fears from coming true. One of these actions is oppression, so those that are being feared would not have the power to grant these fears.
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Poetry is Not a Luxury
Women should use poems as a voice to speak about their oppression. It is a great tool because many are afraid to speak out for they are afraid no one would listen or that they will get shamed. In this case, the suppressor is the one being feared. This fear keeps the women, the oppressed, from speaking out and fighting against the oppression they face. Lorde writes about how the silence is challenging and how poetry is a necessity to break this silence imposed by fear.
Women are oppressed and they are afraid to advocate themselves against their oppressors because their voices are silenced. There are other methods that many uses to surpass the oppression.
Representations of Whiteness in the Black Imagination Hooks writes, "White people were regarded as terrorists ... they were strangers, rarely seen in our neighborhoods." This shows how black people were fearful of white people. Terrorist is a word signifying an enemy; someone one would be frightened of. Since white people are considered terrorists, it further shows how the black people were frighten of the whites. This fear the black people have keeps them oppressed by the whites. Hooks continues to write on how white people had the colonizer role, showing how the whites are the superiors. They cannot stand up against the whites because blacks are afraid of the potential consequences.
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Get Out
White has more privileges and the utilizations of these privileges keep the blacks oppressed. Blacks become afraid because the approaches to suppression could cause more harm to the black which is a greater risk than appeasing to the suppression. This is constantly shown throughout Get Out. The audiences see this in the very beginning when the police officer asked for Chris's license even though it was Rose driving. Chris was black which made him more likely to be targetted. Another example would be when Rose's father was talking about deer and that was a metaphor representing black people. Comparing black people to an animal, specifically a prey animal further shows how the blacks were seen as inferior.
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White people do not fully understand their portrayal in the black imagination and remains ignorant. Even though what they think they are doing is anti racist, their action is perceived differently nearing hints of white supremacy instead.
Twilight, Los Angeles
Many of the people portrayed in the play were fearful. In the scene with the Mexican man, he was saying that he was afraid of the white men, specifically what they can do to continually oppressed colored people. The interviewee was saying how he got arrested and he experienced police brutality. This led him to be fearful of the white men because of what they are capable of. The fear maintains the oppression already present because the one doing the fearing is too frightened to challenge the oppression.
Most of the protesters intention stemmed from their anger. While some did not fuel their activities or lack of activities through anger, many did. Some did it peaceful while some was more violent, but both with the intention of progress.
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After 9/11, the American people became more fearful of those that were Middle Eastern. This lead to more racial profiling especially in airports which is a sign of oppression.
Many black people are fearful of white people. This can be seen when Peccola is interacting with the white storeowner when she is trying to buy candy.
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Utilization of Emotions
Beyond Anger
Nussbaum writes how the utilization of anger would have negative consequences. In her argument, she states how it can, in turn, inflict more pain on both the wrongdoer and the angry person. Instead of utilizing anger as a result of someone's wrongdoer, the person should be generous and friendly. Mandela is constantly being used as an example of someone who does use the alternatives of anger, as stated by Nussbaum. Sometimes, people would use emotions to gain a higher power status than others. Anger could unify people under one common emotion to accomplish the goal of one. When people are angry they are often not thinking about what they are doing it and is so amped up on revenge.
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The Aptness of Anger Srinivasan writes about how utilizing anger can lead to progress. Rage is necessary sometimes to create progress, which can be seen with women's anger when it comes to their sexist oppression. The necessity of the anger does depend on the productivity of the anger, which is simply stating whether the anger is leading to progress or is it leading to further harm. Also when one is quick to chastise someone on their anger and their need to act on their anger, it could be a form of victim shaming. This shows how in certain situation anger is apted and should be expressed.
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Moving Politics
Throughout the AIDS movement, the advocators were united by the emotion of anger. They were using anger to create progress for the AIDS movement. Many of the advocators were people who have lost someone to AIDS, have someone closely related to them with AIDS, or have AIDS them. After these experiences, many would feel grief. the activist would encourage these people to convert their grief into anger to take action. The people that are anger want to express their anger and to take vengeance towards those that cause the feeling of anger.
Both the riots in Los Angeles and the ACT UP movement activists were unified by the anger they had at how the government is responding to the issue.
Gran Fury,Selected Works Some AIDS activists used media to provoke the emotion of anger and then encouraged the expression of anger in the AIDs movement. An example is when they "single out public figures who had made outrageous statements about AIDS, show a photograph of each of them, and cast their words in concrete." This causes anger and addresses who the anger should be targetted toward. Their main goal is to simply to unify people through the shared feeling of anger and to create more progress in the AIDS movement.
The activist also shamed the LGBT community that did not participate in the AIDS movement which show how the first step of the shame is from how others perceives an individual.
Cruising Utopia / Can Hope Be Disappointed Hope is needed as a tool, especially in the political context. When people believe in hope, they are more willing to continue even though there is no solid evidence of the future hope has promised. This shows that not much is need to develop hope in people and not as much as needed to sustain the feeling of hope. Simply, the believers just need promising evidence, not necessarily physical or present, to create strong feelings of hope. Having hope makes it more difficult for someone to give up because they are yearning for the future promised by hope and are willing to continue their effort to ensure this possible future.
Oscar had hope for a possible life with Ybon even though it was filled with uncertainty and did end up with Oscar getting killed. This is similar to how Belli had hope for her future with the gangster even though there was no solid evidence to guarantee this.
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