OK. So. You can have a situation between two people or two groups, both marginalized in some ways, where one person or group is RELATIVELY more privileged than the other.
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and frankly the lines are even MORE muddy where there's not such a stark difference in who benefits/who suffers. Or for things we don't necessarily have a language for but that matter a lot, e.g., a rich cishet white kid who comes from an emotionally abusive home.
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relative to, say, a cishet black guy who grew up in the hood, but with great parents and material stability (i.e., never seriously worried about food or shelter, even if all the bills didn't get paid on time.)
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Anyway these are all the niceties of the world we want to build that I feel like I at least got distracted from thinking about due to a combo of a) listening to more material-focused socialists and b) Donald the world's dumbest tyrant.
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but I think those things are worth thinking and talking about if we one day want to be able to understand and speak about---and in our understanding and speaking, create---a world that is welcoming and just to everyone.
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