seeing a lot of absolutist statements about oppressed and oppressors lately

and, like, most people are both?

men in marginalized communities oppress women in those communities, marginalized cishet people oppress trans and other queer people, abled people oppress disabled ppl
like very few people's identities can simply be reduced to Oppressed

and very few people's identities can simply be reduced to Oppressor

there are a LOT of different types of marginalization and a LOT of different types of privilege
and very few people are on the same end of every one of those axes
one of the things that makes privilege and marginalization hard to talk about is that they're both pervasive AND situational
like, if the context of the conversation is disability, you can have someone who's marginalized in multiple other ways but abled speak from a position of privilege on that subject to someone who's privileged in other ways but disabled
but it's not like the ways in which they're marginalized go *away* in that conversation
it's one of the reasons it's so hard to talk about this, and one of the reasons attempts at big-tent movements for marginalized people end up with so much infighting
but the world isn't really divided nicely into Oppressed People and Oppressors

and that isn't to say that all oppression is the same or equal or that everyone's suffering, no one can be held accountable, obviously
It *does*, however, mean that context is always important.

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