I always get frustrated when I see stuff like “men benefit from sexism”. Because, like… absolutely, most men are better off than they would be if they were women under sexism. But men are not in general better off than they would be if there were no sexism at all, except possibly under some narrow metrics like income. The “benefit from” framing implicitly reinforces the zero-sum eternal conflict model that makes oppression seem superficially attractive to begin with, and sets the privileged up with the unsustainable dichotomy of choosing what is right vs choosing what is good for them.
And, since I suspect this will come up: A world in which it would actually be in my interests to maintain some or all of the structure of oppression that currently exists is so different from our own that I’m wary of making any claims about what would be right, but as a first guess I expect I would happily and guiltlessly reinforce those structures and it would be right to do so. That world isn’t ours, though. (Except possibly with respect to speciesism, if that’s actually a thing).
Not sure I agree with you on that last part, but I find it weird that people choose to frame social justice as a zero sum game. If it’s zero sum, why shouldn’t I just do whatever’s in my best interests? I (theoretically) only care about taking actions that increase the amount of good in the world as a whole.
This is probably my biggest SJ “heresy”.
No, the world isn’t zero-sum, and recognizing this fact isn’t the same thing as always centering able-bodied neurotypical straight white cis men. Why are you so insistent on signaling “no we don’t care about them” so hard that you make it look like it is zero-sum. Why are you ‘splaining what the privileged groups "””actually””” want. How about instead of telling that no, they really should rationally desire to oppress you because ~group interests~ or whatever, you be like “okay good now start removing the things that hurt you as well as us”. You don’t need to give them cookies, just stop trying to turn this into a bullshit zero-sum game for ~purity signaling~. Okay fine I’ve got a plan. Let’s call it “promethea is deviously tricking the privileged people into acting against their gender interests”. Yes, that’s what it is. Definitely. They’ll soooo mistakenly believe they are so ~liberated~ in the postgender transhumanist morphological freedom utopia that they won’t even notice that they ”””really””” would prefer going back to the oppressive bullshit system because being a bit higher on the hill of flowing bullshit is so better than not having any hills or bullshit at all. And they’ll support us in constructing our utopia in which they will be terribly ~oppressed~ by ~not being able to oppress others~. No, I’m not sarcastic or questioning anyone’s life choices or anything what makes you think that.
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