Meditation on Identity Conflict

Identity conflict involves discrimination against someone,

Not for anything they do, just for being themselves,

It happens if there is something about the victim that the perpetrator doesn’t like,

The victim is categorically unable to change, and the perpetrator refuses to.

The perpetrator feels forced to oppose the victim to save themselves,

And they project their negation onto the victim(s),

This may in turn cause the victim(s) to be split, who will enter a dissociative state,

Or project their negation(s) onto yet more victim(s),

Who are they? 

Maybe they remind them of something they did that they want to forget?

Maybe they remind them of feelings they would rather hide and deny?

Maybe they remind them that they can’t do things that they wished they could do?

Maybe they remind them of someone who has hurt them in the past?

Maybe they do not fit the narrative that they want all their friends to believe?

Maybe they do not fit the order that they want to impose on their world?

Yes, they are ambiguous; they are not them are they?

They threaten their identity because their identity excludes their existence,

They are an inconvenient truth for them,

A truth that is easier to eradicate completely than try to understand,

They cannot do anything to dissuade them of their premeditated acts,

They have tried them and convicted them already,

They must be guilty of a crime even if there is no evidence that they have committed one,

They have caused them to do this to them: they are Evil, they are possessed by the Devil,

They must be destroyed, eliminated, removed, disposed of, abolished, terminated,

They are not them now.