Woke theory dictates that to succeed at all is to *necessarily* never have been oppressed, and all that's left for you then is to be — and always have been — the oppressor, or a silent ally thereof. It's not only ahistorical, but a blatantly ludicrous attempt at writing realityhttps://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1227275626794455040 …
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Replying to @webdevMason
Friendly amendment: for a *group* to succeed proved that group was oppressive and never oppressed. Oprah can be successful but part of an oppressed group. Also obvious: there is no objective metric for "success" so the definition can be adjusted as politics requires.
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Agreed in part, though I do think Oprah is *not* allowed to claim that she was — at any point, including prior to her success — anywhere near as free of privilege as others in her reference class who did not go on to lead successful lives
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We see stirrings of the individual-level phenomenon with e.g. "it is impossible to become a billionaire without exploiting people," now a very standard line for the Bernie/Warren left. To succeed is to oppress.
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