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Jul 1Liked by Devaraj Sandberg

Racism is a expression of the emotional plague. The repressed negative emotions and feelings that reside within the armoring. Anxiety and Social anxiety from the COVID period have left people feeling over-stressed and highly irritable. It has also wounded people's psycho-somatic and emotional health. This has created a very volatile situation in which the outburst(s) of the emotional plague can lead to mass outburst of racist slandering of certain population groups, and if not halted can lead to a tidal-wave of senseless violence. Also mentioning that political ideology is a product of people's armoring. I'm reading a book called Neither Left Nor Right by Charles Konia. It goes deeply in to what is called sociopolitical characterology.

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I'd say that armouring is a factor in people with ongoing racist attitudes, for sure. But the nervous system gets triggered regardless of armour or character structure. Just if you have more openness, it's easier to not follow race-based triggers.

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Jul 1Liked by Devaraj Sandberg

I notice with myself that I’m sometimes racist in my head although I never express it. A fear of being taken over and made to feel less superior yuk

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Jul 1Liked by Devaraj Sandberg

I don't feel this blog post is complete without a link to this wonderful song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RovF1zsDoeM

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