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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Replying to @GeniesLoki
You might not like it, but there is already a word for this - it is intersectionality.
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Replying to @pervexists69
There is, but people who claim to be intersectional feminists don't seem to struggle any less to reason about it.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
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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Replying to @pervexists69 @GeniesLoki
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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Honestly I feel this way about a *lot* of feminist terminology - useful terms of art that carry such strong connotations that they really hurt the ability to communicate them. "Privilege" is if anything worse for this than "oppression".
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