There’s this hypothesis in social justice psychology that in an oppressive relationship the oppressed cannot find liberation alone. The oppressor is also trapped and both have to find liberation together (iirc that’s the logic behind “none of us is free until all of us are free”)
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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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But that ain't gonna work, is it, if your primary goal is to replace the other guy as king of the hill? And most of the time I've interacted with the seriously woke, that's what I see as behind the mask. Not "justice for all" but "I call the shots". 1/
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The claim that you cannot bully a member of a privileged group; or that wickedness performed by us can be ignored until the rapture of the revolution; IMHO show the essence of this thinking. //
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