"Counter-Reconstruction" was a white racist political movement that occurred in southern states after the Civil War. Counter-Reconstruction systematically sought denial black voting rights, removal of blacks from political office and curtailment of economic opportunities available to blacks. Southern whites had became terrified by wide-spread black engagement in legitimate political process by the 1870s. Counter-Reconstruction was the initial, reactionary phase of the Jim Crow era. The term plays on "Counter-Reformation". Since the Counter-Reformation was self-serving Catholic reaction to Protestant gains, the term further indicts the largely-Protestant southern white population for its Christian hypocrisy.
Robert Brown Elliot unavoidably fueled Counter-Reconstruction in his brilliant 1874 Congressional debate with the "brain of the confederacy". Southern whites were terrified by an eloquent, erudite black leader who was a living repudiation of plantation racism. They reacted in fear and overwhelming numbers to reimpose slavery in the form of Jim Crow laws. As a result, the aims of Reconstruction would not take hold for another 90 years.
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When your boss announces that a Bank Holiday Monday is coming up or you notice it on your calendar you proceed to contact your mates to arrange a massive party or pub crawl for the whole weekend, this will result in mass injury to the brain and liver forcing you to spew your guts up in your bed or couch the next day in an attempt to regain your perception of the world. This day is called recovery Monday.
Recovery Monday is a safe haven from the stresses of every day life and when announced you can't help but feel relief and anticipation for a good weekend free from the burdens of your job and the daily grind.
When your boss announces that a Bank Holiday Monday is coming up or you notice it on your calendar you proceed to contact your mates to arrange a massive party or pub crawl for the whole weekend, this will result in mass injury to the brain and liver forcing you to spew your guts up in your bed or couch the next day in an attempt to regain your perception of the world. This day is called recovery Monday.
Recovery Monday is a safe haven from the stresses of every day life and when announced you can't help but feel relief and anticipation for a good weekend free from the burdens of your job and the daily grind.
Man 1: Bank holiday is coming up!
Man 2: Recovery Monday is in order I think.
Man 3: Let's have it large you bunch of cunts!
Man 4: Oh no, I've got to go on a picnic with the wife and kids on Monday...
Man 1, 2 and 3: Don't forget to pack your tampons you pussy.
Man 2: Recovery Monday is in order I think.
Man 3: Let's have it large you bunch of cunts!
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1. assumes that childhood trauma (usually sexual in nature) is the basis of most psychological symptomatology;
2. assumes that people who have no memory of such trauma have probably "repressed" it through some arcane and undemonstrated psychological process, blocking it out of their mind completely;
3. assumes that it is necessary to "recover" these "repressed" memories in order for healing to occur;
4. assumes that methods known to produce false memories, such as hypnosis, guided imagery and EMDR can be used to produce accurate recollections;
5. often assumes that "flashbacks" and body memories are signs that the memories recalled are accurate, because of the mistaken view of the therapist that memory is "like a video tape recorder" that permits playback.
The "recovery" process often recommends cutting off contact with people who question the memories, including but not limited to family members who deny that the events so recalled in fact occurred. Recovered memory therapy is a major source of false memory syndrome, and has led to numerous false allegations of 'Satanic Ritual Abuse.'
1. assumes that childhood trauma (usually sexual in nature) is the basis of most psychological symptomatology;
2. assumes that people who have no memory of such trauma have probably "repressed" it through some arcane and undemonstrated psychological process, blocking it out of their mind completely;
3. assumes that it is necessary to "recover" these "repressed" memories in order for healing to occur;
4. assumes that methods known to produce false memories, such as hypnosis, guided imagery and EMDR can be used to produce accurate recollections;
5. often assumes that "flashbacks" and body memories are signs that the memories recalled are accurate, because of the mistaken view of the therapist that memory is "like a video tape recorder" that permits playback.
The "recovery" process often recommends cutting off contact with people who question the memories, including but not limited to family members who deny that the events so recalled in fact occurred. Recovered memory therapy is a major source of false memory syndrome, and has led to numerous false allegations of 'Satanic Ritual Abuse.'
"Whilst undergoing hypnosis as part of recovered memory therapy, Sally remembered being forced to kill and eat a baby she had given birth to after her father had raped her. The fact that she was found on medical examination to be an intact virgin suggested the likelihood of false memory syndrome."
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