I do not understand how their necks can withstand heads that fall that low.

(Excluding POC in western military; they can get the boot)

The enlightened critic can plead that if we all agreed to denounce the {colonizer's} status quo in unison we’d be immensely rewarded, but the average {colonized subject} in the first world cannot be accused of naiveté for preferring to keep a low profile, particularly after being subject — to so many grim stories of murder and of punishment and of how any attempt at radical change {eg. slave revolt, indigenous revolt} always goes awry.

People aren’t “brainwashed” insofar as they don’t actually believe the lies, not in the way that we generally understand belief. It’s more correct to say that {the colonized group} go along with {being assimilated to colonized identity}, whether enthusiastically or apprehensively, because it’s actually their optimal survival strategy. When we concede that the time horizon and scope of responsibility within which we all make our decisions varies, it becomes much easier to see how their choice {seems} smart and intelligent.