@fcktheworld587
So what did Four Finger Frank do to systematically oppress Oprah? He didn't do a very good job of it; She's fucking loaded!
Critical Theory, as you've more or less admitted, discards the individual. Oppression and privilege aren't a single-dimensional spectrum, and advocates of Critical Theory (for soooome reason) tend to conveniently forget that metrics we associate with systemic oppression correlate *way* harder with socioeconomic status than by immutables such as race or gender.
Critical Theory and the very idea of intersectionality was put in the fast lane after Occupy Wall Street, because their very goal is to pit the proles against each other. And yall ate it right up.
Critical Theory discards all of my life experience, hardships I have, disadvantages I have that aren't immediately visible (ASD, bipolar, ADD, OCD), the skills I bring to society, my goals.... None of these things matter, in the eyes of the Critical Theorist. The Critical Theorist stops evaluation after "cis white male" and immediately calls personEvilAndBad() and personHas(silverPlatter(literallyEverything())) when this just isn't the case.
And I'm told that I cannot possibly be fucked with by the cops (I've been jailed for 3 weeks for a bomb threat I didn't make), that I cannot possibly be passed over for work (I haven't gotten a callback after 3,000+ resumes in a supposedly "in demand" field), that I cannot possibly be harassed online (I've been swatted hundreds of times, I receive regular death threats from people on fedi), and that I can snap my fingers to bend the system to my will. Because I got a pale dick, this simply must be my life, and if it's not, I've "fumbled" something.
I have just one thing to say to the Critical Theorist: I want the life you think I have.
@fcktheworld587
To put it a bit more concisely: I'll take being called names online if it means I'm first in line for jobs, because there's a literal government punishment for not hiring a sufficient amount of me.
I'll take being the ire of 4chan if it means it's this side of a crime to criticize me anywhere else.
But of course, in such a system, *someone* has to be the punching bag. *Someone* needs to be what it is okay to attack when you're mad or just a sociopath. This is because this system isn't designed to achieve what it claims to be its goals by lifting people up, it's designed to achieve its goals by knocking others down. And it happily punches some of the lowest in society, because they share some attributes with some people who used to be at the top. What a crime.
In my ideal world, it's either okay to shit on everybody, or it's not okay to shit on anybody.