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Am I crazy or have we really turned tail and ran from the notion that oppression is death by a thousand cuts, and all the little things that oppression is made of matter, and all the little things that liberation will be made of matter?

And I feel like it's partially for good reasons: there are large and specific actions taken by governments that are a big part of the social injustices we live under. It's not all subtle or interpersonal or indirect.

But does that mean that the subtle and interpersonal and indirect don't matter? Does that mean culture doesn't matter?

I feel like this is the confluence of forces from left right and center. Left: Material, not cultural! This feelings shit is bourgeois.

Center: Fair is fair, right is right, we can't have one set of rules for so-called oppressed people and another set of rules for so-called privileged people. Treat people as individuals, not as social groups!

Right: *out loud* Yeah that centrist is right! This is unfair! This is anti-white discrimination! *on Respectable Internet* How come I can't say the n word?! *in Breitbart comments* Fuck you we're the real Americans we're the center of the culture and we ain't changing!

And like, of all the critiques, the leftist critique (as usual) is the closest to true. But you can't disentangle material and cultural (or you can, but it involves guns and I don't fw guns, lol.) You gotta work on both fronts, within leftist orgs and in the broader culture.

(And to be fair, in my limited experience the DSA has not retreated from this position. They don't execute it perfectly but no one does.)