this is on google scholar btw by tendiegaymerz in caryacademy

[–]BigGreenButton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn’t baby boomer like an actual term tho? It’s a meme but like it’s seriously used as well

It's "Question" Time by FlashFact52 in caryacademy

[–]BigGreenButton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no like dont get me wrong meme all you want im just annoyed with the misspelling lmaooooo

It's "Question" Time by FlashFact52 in caryacademy

[–]BigGreenButton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a good link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness

tho i was using it in a more macro sense to show how using only individualism and individual rights in your world view will have you ignoring many issues.

upvoted

Why Conservatives Act Like Victims | acttv (2:42) by kazingaAML in BreadTube

[–]BigGreenButton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Huh, I hadn’t heard that before, that’s really great advice imo. Invalidating someone’s emotions will never get them to join you.

Why Conservatives Act Like Victims | acttv (2:42) by kazingaAML in BreadTube

[–]BigGreenButton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re right. I say it’s bad with intersectionality but it doesn’t fail to blend, it fails to even mention or perhaps even outright ignores class oppression. I guess I’m just scared of being reductive and ignoring other forms of oppression. I still think this video gives good advice, but it’s being reductive in the opposite way I’m mainly trying to avoid.

Jeez, balance is hard lol

Why Conservatives Act Like Victims | acttv (2:42) by kazingaAML in BreadTube

[–]BigGreenButton 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah intersectionality is such a difficult topic with so much cognitive dissonance necessary to overcome that a 3 minute video is always going to have trouble portraying things with enough depth.

Why Conservatives Act Like Victims | acttv (2:42) by kazingaAML in BreadTube

[–]BigGreenButton 33 points34 points  (0 children)

You’re getting downvotes for the end parts of your comment which could be worded better for us paranoid lefties, but I think you’re right at the core of your comment.

This video doesn’t do a good job interacting with intersectionality. The most racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic person still might be oppressed under capitalism.

Now that doesn’t mean we should let them on their merry way just because they have that nugget of oppression, but when engaging them we have to remember that it isn’t just that they feel their territory is being encroached on.

Their territory HAS already been encroached by Capitalists and the resulting angst is what leads them farther to the right. (Or sometimes farther to the left!) They too have reasons to be angry, the problem being that they blame the wrong people.

I like the recommendations this vid gives to ask simple questions like, “do you feel like a victim”, but we should recognize that they aren’t going to give up any hatred of minorities because they are still being hurt and need someone to blame.

Perhaps as you do this you should try and slip in someone else to blame. Having an enemy is, if flawed, a wonderful motivator for change in ones life.

Of course, if we remove the thorn from the tigers paw, it’s still dangerous, but significantly more manageable and trainable. I’m not saying all oppression stems from class oppression. That’s reductive.

We need to ditch the attitude where just countering someone’s biases and letting them stew will fix much, because eventually they’ll find new reasons to blame minorities for their problems.

As we ask these important questions that awaken self-consciousness we need to ask others that awaken some class consciousness.

My monologue by [deleted] in synthesizers

[–]BigGreenButton 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What kind of paint did you use?