the fuckup was in adopting not politics of defending particular identities but of attacking particular identities
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Replying to @chaosprime @datawench
i.e. constructing white people, men, white men intersectionally lol, as rhetorical punching bags
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like maybe just wait until their hegemonic position is actually dismantled before you do that, i'm just spitballing here
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it is a lot to ask huge swathes of humanity not to be outraged by the outrageous =\
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if hegemony can only be beaten by being nice to hegemons then busting out surprise rage, we're doomed
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Replying to @endlessbats @datawench
shit, don't even be nice to the actual hegemons, just don't alienate on-side ppl who share their natal characteristics
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Replying to @chaosprime
I guess. It reeks of "not all men." People who reflexively deny an accurate hegenonic generalization aren't seeing themselves.
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Replying to @endlessbats
sure. but this is maybe a good criterion for who we allow into the role of ~progressive hero~, not for who even consider valid.
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Replying to @chaosprime
most people are balls of fucking anxiety who have all the skill at introspection of literally never having been taught it.
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Replying to @chaosprime
I'm just so allergic to the "if you were really tolerant you'd drink my Nazi spunk" line. equality of outcome, not treatment etc
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oh, yeah, fuck that. i'm not saying reach out to committed Nazis or entertain obvious concern trolls.
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Replying to @chaosprime
but i'm pretty sure those aren't the only people we've been losing.
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