2024-10(Oct)-29(Tue)—2026EDT

Crash course in Critical Theory:

Power/oppressor categories:

White, male, Christian, heterosexual, cisgendered, mentally sound(, wealthy).

Victim/oppressed categories:

The ‘opposite’ of the above.

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The more oppressor categories to which one belongs, the more of an ‘oppressor’ one is (actions virtually irrelevant).

The more oppressed categories to which one belongs, the more ‘oppressed’ one is (again, actions don’t matter).

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If you are an ‘oppressor’, it is your duty to be silent, to listen to the ‘oppressed’, and to constantly repent (preferably publicly) of your ‘privilege’ — there is no forgiveness.

If you are ‘oppressed’, then you can pretty much do whatever you like (so long as you aren’t being nice to ‘oppressors’).

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There is no end goal, no possible resolution, and no forgiveness; there is only constant — and increasingly violent — conflict.