We ought to all know that by now
Have people not been listening for #MeToo
stories coming out of activism and organizing, within marginalized communities, in every corner of society you can name
How the fuck is this supposed to be a POV "steeped in privilege"
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I don't fully trust anybody, and I don't think you should either Including me trusting myself or you trusting yourself I think you should know that everyone has the capacity to be an asshole and cause harm That's the *basis* of morality that *engages with reality at all*
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That's not what privilege and oppression mean, fucking Christ Privilege and power allow you to do more harm, yes, that's what that means, it doesn't mean they are the magic source of the impulse to cause harm It doesn't mean any human being exists who's a pure virtuous innocent
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And even though you may be disprivileged relative to another individual person, the only people who have NO power to harm anyone AT ALL are people who are dead Or locked inside a tiny cell by themselves, or who are babies, or whatever
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It's not even "gray morality" to say that a hero is *capable* of doing bad things, and that, in fact, most heroes have done them The bad things are still bad and the good things are still good It has nothing to do with ambiguity on that score
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If your actual definition of "black and white morality" is specifically that good *people* be marked and designated as "good" and that the narrative not allow them to do bad things, ever, that's... horrible It's such shit
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Training to people to believe that "People on my side are essentially virtuous and noble and loyal because they are on my side They cannot betray my side by doing harmful things" That's not gonna speed social change, that's gonna make it impossible
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the basic point here seems very clear to me, that morally gray stories often depend on an understanding of good and evil as being basically no different. it’s not about how good people can’t do anything bad, it’s about how these stories frame good and evil as indistinguishable.
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which is a genuine problem with how morality is depicted in these stories, because uh, good and evil are actually pretty different, and pretending they aren’t plays into “both sides” rhetoric that serves only to worsen our own understanding of the world.
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They are called Lego games
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