Punching up vs punching down is a concept that is *almost* mutually exclusive with intersectionality yet I often see the same people argue in favor of both
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it was always a terrible concept and what people were going to do with it was always extremely predictable: find a way to position the people they want to punch as “up”
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they're the same people who look at i15y and instead of thinking "hmm this system has more than one dimension and a unilateral approach isn't appropriate", think "I'll combine combine all your traits to give u a Privilege Score, and if it's higher than mine i can harass you"
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I think "punching up" is also used as a way to conflate public and private discourse. I'm a strong proponent of griping about WHATEVER in the comfort of your own home/DMs/etc. "Punching" seems like a way to provide justification for a private act that extends to a public one too
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