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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I think this is partly because people (across the board, this isn't just a social justice thing) take adversity as granting moral authority. Admitting your privilege feels like giving up moral authority. Admitting someone's oppression feels like granting them moral authority.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
Until you spend time with the oppressed and realize they are no angels.
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Replying to @pervexists69
It's not been my experience that mere facts are enough to change people's behaviour on this one.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
It's not just facts but frame - people see the same thing but from an alien world.
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Mostly what I mean is that oppressed people have plenty of experience with oppressed people and the ways that they're assholes and still tend to maintain this claim to authority.
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