i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.
#it's really important to know how you have privileges but like everything else online nuance gets sanded away#like the fact that literally everyone is privileged over somebody else#and how people interact with their societies in complex ways that makes people also complex#sucks seeing people say the author of Persepolis was imperialist because she left Iran and her memoir is about living as a rebellious girl#in a theocracy dictatorship - even though she literally has that quote about people being more similar to each other overall#and governments being the ones who go to war the average person has no say in - she even said she'd return if she could
