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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I don’t really read either. I make up my own ideas and notice where they rhyme with existing ones and occasionally leap to conclusions across rhymes. Who has time for abstruse French thinkers when there is so much TV to rebinge as primary material
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Still is, arguably. The good ideas tend to dissolve into the water and later users often have hilariously little idea about where they came from.
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No significant thinker I’ve encountered ever fits into any of the ideological pigeonholes that emerge in the landscapes they help shape. Those are for smaller minds.
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People who need boxes will find boxes.
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I have non-retractable claws, so I cannot sits, even if I fits, for too long. I perch, where I can, as I go.
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