Recognizing racist symptoms in order to remove them is also resistance. For some time now I have come across situations where talking about social injustices means indignation. But even more important was pointing out the body language I experienced when receiving such feedback. For example, when we talk about the history of inequality that we have experienced as peoples and nationalities, the weight that our skin color, class and our gender as Kichwa women can have, or even naming the racist, sexist violence that we experience, usually provokes reactions. harmful to a deaf ear. .

The social reaction is usually that we are outraged or that we continue to be victims. It is at this moment that a malaise occurs, in which the injustice is reactivated and the violent event is replicated. And society only validates certain emotions or reactions and condemns others. For example, forgiveness is the most viable option for a more moralistic society, and anger is considered a malicious act. At what point does the pursuit of justice become resentment?

Daniela Montes, a Colombian philosopher, talks about anger as an emotional response to actions committed against us by a group. It includes its manifestations in helplessness, pain, oblivion as an intention to avoid further suffering. It’s a human reaction.

Nietzsche, a 19th-century German philosopher, wrote of resentment in his book The Genealogy of Morals (1887) that the origins of resentment were born in slavery and oppression, defining the morality of slavery as a morality that values ​​humility, compassion, obedience, submission, and traditional values ​​of power , strength and dominance, which were considered the virtues of the nobility only, were turned upside down, “the oppressed began to consider their own weakness and suffering as virtues, while they saw strength and power as flaws.” In other words, the other is still perceived as someone with no right to power because it is a virtue for those who oppress, in this case we are still talking about a racist act. And this is exactly what is reflected when a racist believes that a person who lived through the worst social conditions together with his people would not have the power of speech, the power of questioning, disobedience and creative abilities. raise new tracks.

The prevailing idea is that we continue to see ourselves as “the oppressed who act with kindness,” suppressing our will to power and self-assertion in order to dismantle the violence in our lives. White privileged societies feel they have the power to judge our lives, with the power to educate, infantilize us, therefore it is racial discrimination. What we hate in this search for justice is not the enemy but injustice (Nietzsche). Not just anyone, but what. However, the response is an insult and it is a racist symptom. Therefore, from this side, we continue to resist, dismantling every symptom, proposing collective treatment and demanding compensation from the state. (OR)