People seem to really struggle to reason about the fact that the same person can be both privileged and oppressed without these things in any way cancelling out. If they're ingroup, people ignore that they're privileged, if they're outgroup people ignore that they're oppressed.
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There are a lot of concise, accurate terms and insightful ideas that have been mangled beyond all recognition by the discourse, unfortunately.
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Oppression as a term is perhaps the real culprit - it's emotionally loaded and not brought up unless one is trying to score points.
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I have learned I can throw wrenches here by exclusively talking in feminist quotes. I suppose that goes for any ideal.

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I speak SJ well enough I can sometimes instill seeds of doubt in the naive and earnest and royally troll some bad faith actors.
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