When I first heard the idea (there’s probably a canonical reference) it seemed wrong. The oppressor is clearly free in ways the oppressed is not. Then I grokked the logic. Now I’ve kinda flipped. I don’t think the oppressor can ever be free, but the oppressed have a shot at it.
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The tldr of my reverse argument is: if you’re on the top of a hill, you’re likely to die trapped there, because it is hard, often impossible, to see the point of getting off. If you’re at the bottom, there’s a reason to try. Both can move, only one has a default reason to.
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There’s some intriguing arguments and a pretty elegant power calculus theory underneath modern social justice politics, if you have the stomach to look past the warrioring and end-times clusterfuck. I don’t entirely buy the psychological axioms, but there’s a there there.
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When the Great Woke Meltdown is done and a decent period has passed to let the dust settle, I plan to take another look at this stuff. Claim some of the better intellectual turf at firesale prices, repackage them in libertarian language to confuse people, and resurrect them
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Have you ever read Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Freire? While he believes that certain oppressed types cannot find liberation alone, it's because their oppressors have distorted their worldview so much that the oppressed have trouble seeing their way out, like in
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I've browsed it... and owned a copy for a while. But eventually never did properly read it. Way too inside baseball woke text for me. I had/still have very fundamental objections to "critical pedagogy".
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