Someone could be powerful, rich, privileged, lucky, beautiful and actually you still have a moral duty to be decent to them. You don’t get to opt out of decency based on the social hierarchy in either direction.
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In all this competitive victimhood, this willful ignoring of luck, money, privilege to claim an oppressed identity, it looks to me like there’s an ambition to a negate responsibility for being good to others. If you are the ultimate victim you are only owed, you don’t owe.
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Thus you get people with surprising pronouns posting about waitresses getting the surprise pronouns wrong. No sense that there’s a moral duty to treat waitresses well. (Which is obviously the most sacred moral duty.)
