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What is the Sunken Place?When your significant other has you whipped Guy1: yo, you coming out tonight? the Sunken Place - videoThe Sunken Place - what is it?The sunken place is when a person of color or a woman is in a (read: non-cisgendered, white men) state of cognitive dissonance and unconsciousness in regards to all forms of systematic oppression, particularly systemic racism. From: Jordan Peele's 'Get Out'. Particularly key to the Sunken Place is its self-induced helpless due to ignoring racism, sexism, and discrimination as a person of color. Ben Carson is in the sunken place. What does "the Sunken Place" mean?When you are surrounding by energy draining white people who marvel in the depletion of your energy. Every since Tom started hanging around Oscar, he's been in a sunken place. The Sunken Place - what does it mean?Basically, you are in the sunken place if you are not aware of your rights, or not aware of your value, or you are but society doesnβt let you live that way. That girl doesn't think that people in her school are prejudiced. Little does she know, their subconscious resistance to her success is a constant drain on her energy, resulting in her looking like she got hit by a bus. She is in the sunken place. The Sunken Place - meaningThe metaphorical place an oppressed person goes when they have become silent or compliant to their own oppression. More often, the sunken place is used to describe a disadvantaged person who is ignorant or unwilling to see that they have been conditioned into acquiescence. However, the sunken place can apply to anyone who chooses to stay silent in the face of discrimination or injustice, usually of their own. Janice: Why did Trump get votes from women if he had such a long history of being sexist? The Sunken Place - definitionWhen one is in a perpetual place of slumber, regarding systematic and idiosyncratic injustice and oppression in regards to race, i.e. the antithesis of being woke. Especially when a person of color can't or refuses to see it. Tod: Morgan Freeman told Don Lemon that black folks should pull themselves up from their bootstraps, even when they ain't got no boots. |
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