PARTY TIME

Oppressed groups lack the systemic power to oppress their oppressors, which is why they are able to be oppressed lol

Someone can be oppressed along one axis but an oppressor along another axis. For example, trans, Black, and disabled men all experience oppression for those marginalities, while also being part of an oppressor group (men). They cannot experience oppression for being men, as willingly or unwillingly, they remain part of that oppressor group despite further complexities added by their marginality.

As such, an oppressed group saying they hate men, whites, cis people, abled people, etc. is in no way sexism, racism, etc. because these are systemic factors that oppressed groups cannot access within their axis.

And to be clear, when I say “men” above, I do not mean it in the T*RF dogwhistle way of “really trans women”, trans men are men, trans women are women.

Misandry is not real and is not a systemic force. This includes transmisandry, transandrophobia, homoandrophobia, etc. The terms you are looking for is transphobia and homophobia. You are not systemically oppressed for being a man regardless of marginality because misandry isnt real. This is basic feminism.

Racism towards whites does not exist as a systemic force. If you try to say some shit about anywhere in Africa when the entire continent has experienced brutal colonization and imperialism at the hands of whites for centuries, please yeet yourself off this mortal coil.

Bigotry against abled people is not real, and is not a systemic force.

Bigotry against cis people is not real, and is not a systemic force.

This is UNTRUE!!!! If you’re new to Catholicism you HAVE to listen to MEEEEEEEEE. Here’s my advice:

A lot of people know about the very first piece he did when he left the post which was the The Problem We All Live With which depicts Ruby Bridges walking to school under federal protection.

But I don’t think enough people know about Murder in Mississippi which depicts three real civil rights activists who were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and sherriffs. The magazine ran the sketch instead of the finished piece because they felt it had a more striking statement to accompany the article. Norman Rockwell would finish that version after publication which is here

Rockwell’s legacy is sanitized because he decided to maintain his job at the Post for so long despite his frustrations with not being able to express himself. The civil rights movement was just his final straw to change what he could with the little time he had left. Look magazine received a lot of hate for Rockwell painting these as well.

Another favorite piece of mine is The Right to Know which depicts an integrated populace questioning their government. In 1968, the year of Vietnam and the year the Fair Housing Act only just got signed in months prior:

But I think it’s important to include the caption Rockwell originally wrote for the piece as well. I think it represents how a 74 year old Rockwell felt about the America he believed in and the people in it:

likely the most famous picture of a Thanksgiving dinner ever painted and you see it all the time.

What you may not know is its actual title

“Freedom From Want” it’s a part of a series of 4, including this now famous meme

“Freedom of Speech” These paintings were illustrations of FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech where The President laid out a vision that would become what the Allies were fighting for in WWII universal human rights that became a part of the UN charter.

So this homey American Thanksgiving scene was also a bold statement that no one in the world should go hungry