"The Overseer Class": Steven Thrasher on Black Cops, Pro-Palestine Protests, DEI & More

That’s the sound of the police, that’s the sound of the beast

This concept is so crucial to a unifying principle for how oppression and even internalization of oppression functions in history and presently. It exploits the survival instincts and encourages the fracture of solidarity between and within groups. This happens within all groups and societies as power imbalances cause instability and utilizes our human need for self preservation against our otherwise cooperative nature in environments of low stress or equilibrium socially. Egalitarian methods of behavior are thrown into imbalance as gaming the system becomes safer for individuals than altering the system or when this is impossible. It happens in the individual and more broadly when the threat of violence or being exploited but tolerated (and so allowed to survive) is a viable alternative in the very real need to survive and feel safer. It is often not consciously acknowledged as doing so and repressing the huge amount of cognitive dissonance that comes from recognizing this stark disassociation with self identity would become more and more self destructive.

Wow. I learned so much! Thank you!

I want this book Now! 😊

Thank you Amy and Juan , and thank you Steven ; your work is most admirable indeed. rn

Thanks Steven and Amy

Wow - intriguing…ordering the book.👏🏽👏🏽

Just listened to this at DN. I'm in here to watch the full interview. Hearing the part about Obama and Harris I'm nodding my head so hard it might snap off.

Thank you! Great interview

Excellent work, looking forward to reading!