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    Confusing the epistemic effects of past power with the st... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A person can be dominated even when power is not actively being exercised against them at the present moment.

    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.Structural domination exists independently of whether individuals psychologically feel dominated or experience its historical effects.
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    • 2.Conflating subjective suffering with objective power relations risks validating false consciousness while ignoring hidden structural constraints.
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    • 3.Material inequalities in access, resources, and institutional control remain measurable facts regardless of how people subjectively interpret them.
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    • 1.Subjective experience of oppression is itself data about power relations; dismissing it as merely epistemic misses how domination operates psychologically.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'epistemic effects' and 'structural facts' is unstable; internalized norms shape which structures persist and remain invisible.
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    • 3.Claiming objectivity about 'present' power while excluding past trauma risks ignoring how historical domination reproduces itself through present subjectivities.
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