Lateral Violence Is When Ppl In The Same Marginalised Community Start Tearing Each Other Down - Blog Posts

Yes! The lateral violence! I see this so much irl as a lower class American so the parallels are paralleling! I'm screaming about it from the rooftops.

something I found very interesting throughout the series was all the lateral violence

sure eventually SecUnit starts to ever so slightly reduce the violence it does to other SecUnits but it still doesn’t fully recognise its own bias against SecUnits.

anyway here’s some SecUnit on SecUnit violence ft System Collapse

It’s battle style kept giving me over-dramatic wrestler-grappler vibes, lots of up close grappling and desperate scrambling, and i also like doing figure studies soooooo

I really liked in the last two books especially network effect it had more introspective thoughts

it’s constant running thoughts and internalised hatred about how awful secunits are

that it admitted to itself that its angry all the time in one brief line then never went into it deeper

how willing and eager it is to tear other sec units apart but hesitated on killing people (admittedly took a few books for that to happen) and starts disabling instead

doesn’t quite make that connection between the constant anger, the safety it feels in being violent to other secunits and the anxiety and fear it still feels about humans in power over it.

but the others are not so violent against secunits and it starts to secondguess its responses (but not quite its internal thoughts)

then starts to disable (some) secunits where possible and even voluntarily giving some govmod hacks

perhaps it’s starting to recognise other secunits are people too? may or may not branch out to combatunits when?

secunit gets trauma therapy when