Teacher Oppression and Eminem
Through our exercise in class it was easy to feel the power and rush of being the oppressor, the issue was, we ourselves were immediately repressed for doing just that.
The woman from the office next door crushed any power we had built up, I believe making it hard for us to talk about it.
What would have happened though if we then turned our power back at her "SILENCE", "GO HOME", "TORCH THE HALL"?
it could have made for a very interesting day of oppression on top of oppression.
When we discussed symbolic reversal in class, slightly embarrassing, but all I could think of was the Eminem movie. When the rappers compete they usually tear each other down, but Eminem turned it around and described himself, tore himself down. By doing this he left his opponent without anything to say, and thus made the personal attack a positive thing, in a way. It made more sense in my head. But yeah.

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