Thread by @lisaquestions

The cool thing* about oppression is that they're systems, not individual people, so anyone can exploit existing systems to harm oppressed people (or often an oppressed person). And you can see people doing this on twitter dot com every day for free examples.

And it's not as if the stakes are low here. People get harassed until they have to leave, they get doxed, some die by suicide because of how relentless it can get and how much they can't escape it.

And you can see it work similarly offline. It's just often not quite so documented with so many easily available receipts.

So anyway, if someone tells me they can't oppress me I lose trust because it's not about their individual power, it's the systems they can use against me.

* Not actually a cool thing