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@mekkaokereke this specific framing helped me understand the deeper ties of power structures within all of this.

As in, as a participant, one inhabits the power structure that those above you enforce, which means your defaults are necessarily skewed. You can hold your own values, but then excuse familial behavior because of closeness to power. Bc it's obvious, but it's unstated, which makes it insidious. You are required to disbelieve its existence. So you have to rationalize everything.