Thread by @EveKeneinan

Another half-truth.

Being a “marginalized” person makes you, in some respects, more clever than a non-marginalized person, but it also makes you BAD.

Oppression causes vice. That’s one of the MAIN REASONS it is EVIL.

https://twitter.com/AlsoACarpenter/status/1370129763033960448

If this CRT nonsense were true, it would follow that white people and men and ALL “oppressor groups” have DONE A HUGE FAVOR TO THE MARGINALIZED BY MARGINALIZING THEM—because THIS HAS MADE THEM VIRTUOUS.

It also follows, since oppressing someone BENEFITS THEM, WE SHOULD DO THAT.

Let me repeat that:

IF OPPRESSING PEOPLE MAKES THEM GOOD, THEN WE SHOULD KEEP DOING THAT, BECAUSE BY OPPRESSING PEOPLE WE ARE BENEFITTING THEM.

This makes the oppressors the good guys for sure—the oppressor groups take upon themselves the burden of oppressing others, which makes the oppressed GOOD and VIRTUOUS, while they themselves, the oppressors, do not become good—so their action is very generous and altruistic.

Or at the very least, it becomes a FAIR TRADE:

The oppressors benefit by EXPLOITING the oppressed.

The oppressed benefit by being made good and virtuous via oppression.

It’s win/win.

So why would anyone want to END such a system?

The privileged benefit by having privilege privilege.

The marginalized benefit by having marginalized privilege.

Everybody wins.