• Grayox@lemmy.mlOP
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      10 months ago

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

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        10 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.

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      10 months ago

      That IS the point, and rarely do equality or equity initiatives “pull down” anyone.

      But the Haves feel like they’ve earned their position, and that means that if you help a Have Not in any way, you are taking away from their achievement (which in this case is “not being born poor/black/female”)

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      10 months ago

      That’s well and good, but bringing everyone up needs to be done in consideration of lasting multigenerational harm from what has come previously, and areas where we as a people and nation continue to marginalize, underserve, and sometimes actively harm some segments of our population.

      Folks who think those things should be ignored are not actually interested in bringing everyone up.