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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Oh great, an app that encourages people to treat every event around them that *could* be a crime as a crime, form a mob, and hunt down whoever they’ve decided is a perpetrator.
Definitely a very good idea to make a literal lynch mob app.
“Users are flooded with notifications in what multiple sources interpret as an attempt to make users feel anxious enough about their neighborhoods to buy "Protect," a $19.99 per month service”
What if Nextdoor but you paid it to call the police AND assemble a mob every time your Black neighbor took out their trash
"Citizen can’t make money unless it makes its users believe there are constant, urgent threats around them at all times,"
Like, just sit with that for a moment. This super testosterone-y game about shooting things, well into its franchise life, and marketing is worried that if they don't show the only female presence in the game being violently sexually violated, people might think it's too girly.
And now imagine--big room, big meeting, all these dudes--being a woman in that room, one of 2 or maybe 3 among like 15 or 16 guys.
And you're like hey maybe let's not do this?
And a marketing guy says it to you, in the tone one would use with a particularly dense child.
I'm also really sick of the impossible demands for ideological purity put on Jews from white gentiles sitting pretty in places like the US and England.
Like, any time the subject of Israel comes up, suddenly everyone's staring at the Jew or Jews in the room.
And again, American Jews are *more likely* to be critical of Israel than American Christians.
But any time it comes up, suddenly you're under a microscope and no one's staring at the Christians at the BBQ, waiting to pick apart *any reaction they have.*
I watched an Israeli expatriate get berated for mentioning a restaurant he missed in Tel Aviv.
There was at least one, and IIRC multiple, freelancers we stopped using at Paizo because they didn't understand this and went on public rants about how the developer changed their Precious Words.
That's how work-for-hire works. You write a thing, you get paid, and then the company that paid you gets to (more or less) do what they want with it.
Tangential to this is that you're not actually directly supporting the author when you buy a book that's been written as work-for-hire (as most freelance writing in TTRPGs is). They've been paid already, and aren't getting royalties.