Imagine living in a world where for millennia your kind is discriminated against, denied equal rights and representation, your bodies appropriated to produce your oppressor's descendance or reduced to an object for his pleasure, degraded and hurt for his amusement,

Your (self)image shaped by the gaze of your oppressor &projected all around you, inescapable.

But your kind fights for centuries to gain equal status, to change the narrative about your bodies and lives, to achieve full human status, &makes some slow progress in that direction.

Suddenly, because he gets so much pleasure from watching and partaking in your degradation, your oppressor falls in love with his own mistreatment of you and your people to the point of wanting to embody it. He calls it his identity.

He says that this identity (the embodiment of your dehumanisation) makes him exactly the same as you, makes him you, but even more vulnerable than his treatment of you ever made you.

He tells you that if you can not accept him as your own kind you must be killed & silenced.

He tells you that your attempt to protect yourself and your kind from his millennia long mistreatment of you is hatred and violence. He tells you it makes you the oppressor.

And society, within minutes, approves.

Just imagine....