#ask yourself who is benefiting from this infighting? who is instigating it? who is maintaining the systems of oppression that cause it?

[40ouncesandamule]

#for the people continually dumbfounded that oppressed people commit lateral oppression and leverage what privilege they do have to... #oppress others instead of seeking liberation or the dismantling of oppressive systems #furthermore... when one group with more power than you oppresses you... you have every right to resist that oppression #even if the group oppressing you is also being oppressed #while we all love the ideal of the model oppressed person who only seeks liberation... there will be people who instead lash out #and the more axes of oppression one is under will inherently make the person feel more entitled to 'punch upward' as there are more targets #so rather than tokenizing and scapegoating the oppressed person who is swinging at the other oppressed person... #(regardless of the second person's position in the 'progressive stack') #ask yourself who is benefiting from this infighting? who is instigating it? who is maintaining the systems of oppression that cause it? #who is showing it to you? #who is platforming it? #why is this inter or intra communal beef being displayed to outsiders? #because once you can answer these questions #you'll be a lot less fucking dumbfounded