Can Someone Be Both an Oppressor and the Oppressed at the Same Time?

Even with these nuances and objections we can still see this dynamic of the oppressor reacting to basic equality as if it were brutal oppression. There is a powerful unconscious death drive on behalf of those reactionaries who see themselves as losing their previously exalted and always unearned positions. The sadism the deep-seated desire to inflict pain on the most vulnerable and marginalized people in society is alive and well across the world. i have long held that there is an exhilaration and almost a static pleasure that reactionaries get by imposing suffering on those they deem below them particularly if those people are rising against their oppression.