In a way, politics is about achieving the best result for your ingroup. At some fundamental level, I perceive all conscious beings as my ingroup. This universalism is what I used to understand as leftism; rightism defines a much smaller ingroup and pits them against others.
The woke notion of privilege is almost entirely orthogonal to economic status and social class, and so much more compatible with establishment. You can be a multimillionaire with Ivy league degree and yet less privileged than a homeless person if you have a marginalized identity.
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hmm, this is an interesting observation. perhaps relatedly - intersectionalism, at least in my naive understanding, opens up a wide range of dimensions and their combinatorics. applied inconsistently or in bad faith, it's a kind of meta bigotry
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I don't think it is possible to apply it consistently, because that would require that there is a single global oppression context. A feature of Social Justice: you can claim restorative justice based on group identity, even if you are personally consistently privileged.
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