“X suffer less than people like me.”
How do you know that? Do you think having one possibly privileged identity protects you from being marginalised in other ways? How do you quantify the suffering of people who you do not know? Of people you can only conceive of through generalisation? You’re gonna solve intersectionality like it’s only been about you all along?
Also, how is this relevant? It seems to me that most discussions about who is really the most marginalised of a marginalised group, or what marginalised groups are most marginalised etc. Are blatant attempts at trying to establish a hierarchy of oppression.
Hierarchies of oppression are almost exclusively used politically by people who want to suck up to the powers that be and throw people they deem less worthy under the bus.
If you are part of a marginalised community and you spend most of your time on here arguing about who in your community is actually more privileged than you and actually quasi oppressive just for being less maligned etc.
Then you are wasting your time, the time of your community members, and you are actually undermining community solidarity.
Please look further than your own struggles and the need to be the moral of the story. Your enemies are people who are actively moving the levers of power to hurt you. Not people who might still be on the chopping block but only later than you.
Please have some perspective. Cause this kind of discourse is genuinely destroying connections, alienating people from community and sabotaging action.
