#socjus

sometimes. you are going to see people complaining about oppression. and it's going to make you feel bad and uncomfortable. because you yourself are oppressed and in these circles you are used to being The Oppressed One and seeing these other complains about People Including You reminds you of actual bigotry in broader spaces, or makes you doubt your own oppression, or just makes it feel like you're being told you 'have it easy'.

but. that's not what's happening. what's happening is just that other people also have systematic problems and deserve to talk about it.

that is not an attack on you.

oppression is not a zero-sum game. Aspecs, or trans men, being better acknowledge as suffering from oppression, does not mean that you have it any less bad than you have known yourself to do.

it doesn't even mean that they have it 'worse'. It means exactly what I said: that they also have issues that they need help with and are worth discussing.

If that upsets the basis of your own understand of your oppression... yeah. maybe that means your understanding was wrong. sorry.

but it's only the THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING that has been upset. your oppression is still not in any kind of question.

is that easy to understand or carry forth? no.

but it's necessary.

and it has happened, over and over again. When gay people and trans people were at head to head, both presenting the other as predatory sexual deviants and themselves as 'normal'. When gay men diminished lesbians' suffering because they were less likely to get on the news for being murdered than gay men. when bisexuals (within Tumblr's own history!!!!!!) were widely panned as possessing 'straight-passing privilege' and therefore never in the same 'category' of oppression as gay men and lesbians.

it happens over and over and over again. and it's always hard. but it always needs to happen, morally.

even if the people expressing their oppression are 'too aggressive'. even if their arguments make you feel uncomfortable and scared. even if the place you belonged no longer feels like home anymore.

it'd be nice if every time something happened that made you feel bad, it was because of somebody Bad who needs to be Stopped and/or Punished. but that just isn't the case.

It’s ableist af.

There’s a condition called lissencephaly where the surface of the brain grows in smooth instead of developing folds. It’s rare, but most people with it tend to have intellectual disabilities or neurological issues.

Let’s not use a condition of the brain people don’t choose to have as an insult, please?

@brazenautomaton​ has written a gigantic pile of poasts about Just This...

Twitter reports loss of ad revenue in the first quarter of 2021.

Blaming civil unrest and claims that companies are revaluating their products in relation, Twitter is otherwise seeing the divestment of funds from their political propaganda platform. Twitter has since devolved from a social communications platform to Propaganda Online Service Engagement Repeater (POSER). Twitter has recently purged large numbers of users and companies that do not meet the requirements outlined by The Dresden Hygiene Museum.

Much like The Hygiene Museum, Twitter seeks to "shape the idea of which lives are worthy and which are worthless." Companies pulling ad revenues in addition to those purged by the Twitter Admin Gestapo (TAG) have clearly influenced the sharp drop in ad revenues. Fewer viewers means fewer views, and fewer views means fewer undesirable worthless racist ignorant trash, according to Democrat funded research.

Peter Dinklage's (right) long-lost twin brother created from a test tube in the Aryan Social Justice Super Soldier Warrior Program, Twitter's CEO, Politician and Party Minister of Propaganda, Jack Dorsey (left), has led the charge that Twitter is the platform for The Peoples' Truth. Every tool is at their disposal to eliminate what Twitter deems Untrue to ensure clean and open conversation about Party Approved Information. Censorship of "Wrongthink" is in turn countered with support of "Righthink" by glorifying violence in support of The Party's Agenda or eliminating the need for skepticism. If everything everyone reads has been approved for consumption, then there's no concern for the individual to spend wasteful time thinking. An individual is then free to work, unburdened of worry, concern, and free of questions that may otherwise lead to Wrongthink.

Twitter promises greater profits in coming months as they continue to eliminate resistance efforts by domestic terrorists, intent on tempting people to Wrongthink about The Party's Goals of equity, equality, and the pursuit of unquestionable Government Authority. These profits will go into Billionaire pockets, which will then be moved to the Government to trickle down into the hands of The People.