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    A person can be dominated even when power is not actively... — Carmelics
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    A person can be dominated even when power is not actively being exercised against them at the present moment.

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    • 1.Domination can persist when unexercised because of its previous exercise.
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    • 2.The actual exercise of power can condition a social relationship in a longstanding manner.
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    • 3.If power has been exercised over someone in the past, or over members of the same subordinated social group, this affects how that person relates to those in power.
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    • 1.Domination requires the ongoing capacity to interfere, not merely the historical memory of past interference.
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    • 2.If a boss loses all authority to fire employees, a worker's residual fear reflects psychological conditioning, not genuine domination.
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    • 3.Confusing the epistemic effects of past power with the structural fact of present domination conflates subjective experience with objective relations of power.
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    • 1.On Hobbes's analysis, power relations are defined by actual present capability, not the lingering shadow of prior exercise.
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    • 2.A relationship in which interference is permanently foreclosed—by law, incapacity, or exit rights—lacks the asymmetric vulnerability that constitutes domination proper.
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    The controversy about whether completely dormant power can dominate continues, but there is broad consensus that you can be dominated even if nobody is actively dominating you at the moment. Even if there is no domination without an actual display of power over you or people like you at some time, domination might persist when unexercised precisely because of its previous exercise. As Wartenberg (1990) says, the actual exercise of power can “condition” a social relationship in a “longstanding” m
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