> .. the backhand is not for injuring people, it’s for humiliating people, degrading. Masters backhand their slaves, husbands wives, parents children, Romans Jews, it’s always one down isn’t it. So it’s inserting a person back in the social role he plays as an inferior. The whole point was to force someone who was out of line to get back in line.
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