March 6, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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| For anyone who doesn't know what the progressive stack is, it's the order of importance of identities. | |
| This is how they figure out who's more oppressed than other people. | |
| So the first thing, obviously, is race. | |
| Probably because it's the easiest and probably because the sort of people who engage in using the progressive stack are idiots. | |
| Number two is heteronormativity, which I'm probably being a little bit fast and loose with, but I'm meaning to basically mean someone who has transitioned or not. | |
| Then we have gender, of course, are you male or female? | |
| And I do think being trans supersedes whether you're male or female. | |
| And then we have sexuality. | |
| Apparently, the fact that you're a white male is more important than the fact that you're gay. | |
| I find it really ironic then that things like ability and class are relegated to the bottom of the stack, which is odd to me because these are the places where I would look first if looking for privilege. | |
| But the fact that say Laurie Penny comes from a wealthy family comes a distance second to the fact that she's a woman. | |
| She's being oppressed and now you have to let the little rich girl explain to you how difficult her life has been. | |
| And woe betide you if you were a white, cis, male, straight, able-bodied, middle-class person. | |
| You are scum. | |
| Because you are not only benefiting from these privileges, you're also forcing oppressions on the opposite of these categories. |
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