Can't help but notice that even when grievances are legitimate in lefty discourse the discussions tend to focus in on marginalized ppl.
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Let's simplify and divorce this from all actual axes of marginalization. We'll assign two 1-10 scales: Privilege and Take Badness
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Lefties are more likely to notice & drag a take of 6 Bad from somebody w 2 Privilege than a take of 9 bad from somebody w 10 Privilege
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That's abstract #'s. In practice this ends up taking the form of, say, screen capping a Jewish woman for making an odd analogy >>
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While letting antisemitism or benevolent racism from a white man go almost completely unchecked.
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It reproduces the same old structures of power except in the guise of a new kind of Rightness.
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hey don't forget how white guys mocking AAVE is totally ok when they're mocking a Bad black person
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