When you are privileged equality looks like a downgrade. - eviltoast
  • Grayox@lemmy.mlOP
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    9 months ago

    No shit, the only thing leftists want to pull down are systems of exploitation.

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      9 months ago

      Meanwhile, the Right want to pull down your trousers to check your “gender”.

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      9 months ago

      At the same time, privileged people will still sometimes feel a loss of something when you’re portioning out a finite resource. So if a particular group is 25% of the population and they were getting 75% of the pie before and now they’re getting 25% of the pie, that’s a loss. It’s a justified loss, but it’s still a loss.

      That said, there are other things like rights that are not finite in any meaningful sense of the word. When someone is feeling a loss because an oppressed group gained rights, it’s usually because they’re an oppressive asshole.