#Injustice and oppression

[silvysartfulness]

Hate it when you wanna keep reading that crunchy fanfic you've been thinking about all day

except you can't

because it's your fanfic

and you have to "write the fucker down" first, apparently

[afriblaq]

How many people need to die at the hands of police before we realize promising to give police total immunity is a dangerous idea? (warning: distressing)

@NowThisImpact.

[alwaysbewoke]

[anti-zionist-jew]

Perfectly said. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are not the sole problem. They are a symptom of the problems

[possiblyunhinged]

It's laughable that the media, which exists to serve the interests of the affluent, is now clutching its pearls over Luigi Mangione’s so-called 'cold-blooded' murder of a health insurance CEO.

For decades, these same outlets have done the legwork to disillusion us to suffering—convincing us that 'justified' killings exist, even excusing the deaths of countless civilians at the hands of US and UK military forces in the name of the 'greater good.' But now that this detachment doesn’t work in favour of the people who pay their bills, it’s suddenly a problem—not for innocent civilians, of course, but for billionaires. Right?

It reminds me of that line from '71: 'War is rich cunts getting stupid cunts to kill poor cunts.' It's always been about protecting the interests of the rich, manipulating the rest of us into doing their dirty work. And now that even their most loyal bootlickers can’t summon sympathy for a man whose wealth was built on the suffering of others, the irony is sickening.

And sure, maybe this sounds 'extreme,' but when we’re so disconnected that even working-class people struggle to relate to one another, how are we supposed to empathise with multi-millionaires whose fortunes are carved from our pain?

[thashining]

Call Gov Parson 417-373-3400

[philosophybits]

The blessings in which you this day rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me.

Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852)"

[voidami]

This needs more attention, please share and boost on tiktok if you have one. We need justice for Javion Magee and his family in the very probable racist lynching that seems to have occurred. Too much of this gets ignored.

[fountainpenchess]

It is possible to see how pre-emptive testimonial injustice and testimonial smothering contribute to ignorance regarding suicidal people's experiences, because their voices remain relatively absent from the public sphere or are transformed or adapted to be more "acceptable", in turn fostering hermeneutical injustice and leading to greater difficulty in theorizing suicidist oppression–and hence perpetuating the deadly silencing circle of epistemic violence.

— alexandre baril, suicidism: a new theoretical framework to conceptualize suicide from an anti-oppressive perspective 

[thoughtportal]

[only-knives]

i want justice for all disabled people. i want us to be able to live freely, to be loved, to have rights, to not be hurt and discarded. i want a better world for us all so deeply. this includes you, whether you think you deserve goodness or not. a life free of oppression is not something to be deserved in the sense of needing to do something to be worthy of it. you inherently need it. you have an inherent right to this and i am sorry we don't live in a better world. but one day we will. we have to.

[random-xpressions]

Why does the heart feel so heavy when it sees unwiped tears, unpaid sweat, unavenged blood...

Random Xpressions

[sameteeth]

in s3ep2, eleanor tells mrs. hudson she doesnt come from privilege, which mrs. hudson immediately denies. but i think its SOOO telling of eleanor's character! she sees herself as a woman in a world full of men, which she is, but she completely ignores the class and racial divides she obviously benefits from. she claims she has no privilege to mrs. hudson, who comes from no money and works as a chambermaid to woodes rodgers, leaving behind her beloved children to make sure eleanor has clean clothes and to empty her chamberpot. eleanor had power on nassau, power she wielded for her own benefit and to the severe detriment of others. obviously she experienced misogyny, but she was never forced into poverty, never forced into sex work, never forced into service of any kind, because her father was wealthy and she was born into a higher class. her experiences of misogyny and oppression are vastly different than mrs. hudson's. but for her to tell a chambermaid she experienced no privilege? it's laughably untrue. eleanor oversaw and directly profitted from the trade of hundreds if not thousands of slaves on nassau, was raised by "chattel property of the guthrie estate" mr. scott, who is never even given a name in his own tongue (on screen, at least), never showed kindness to anyone but those who put money in her pocket because she was born with that money and that trade empire already in the guthrie name. she had to fight to get it, and fight she did, but the fact that those things were so close to her reach just by virtue of the circumstances of her birth? that's privilege, whether or not she sees it that way

[iamnmbr3]

Voldemort recruiting werewolves and other nonhumans to his cause: I will give you power in a society that has shunned you and the freedom to live openly.

The Order of the Phoenix recruiting werewolves and other nonhumans to their cause: Thoughts and prayers. We support you.

[voltairineandviolethaze]

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

- Elie Wiesel (1986)

[fountainpenchess]

I contend that suicidal people experience both types of epistemic injustice, as well as hermeneutical marginalization. I argue that testimonial injustice is produced by interlocking sanist, suicidist and paternalist views that regard the judgment of suicidal people as irrational, incompetent, illegitimate or alienated and which destroy the suicidal subject's credibility. In that sense, suicidal people's voices are invalidated. Furthermore, as a group, suicidal people lack the conceptual tools necessary to understand their experiences outside the mainstream curative and preventative frameworks and to make them intelligible to others. As we saw above, no matter what model one uses to theorize suicidality, suicide is not considered a valid option and hence is not rendered intelligible or rational. This doesn't mean that suicidal people are not able to develop those analytical tools and don't have the capacity or agency to do so, but simply that there is a scarcity of theories, notions and concepts to help them conceptualize their experience as part of a larger system of oppression rather than an individual problem. To give an example, the fact that a suicidal person finds it difficult to reach out due to a multitude of reasons−fear of negative consequences and stigma, guilt at the idea of leaving their loved ones or "depriving" them from life insurance that doesn't apply in the case of suicide, the conviction they are being selfish or cowardly−demonstrates that it is difficult for suicidal people to conceptualize their personal experience as part of a larger oppressive system that produces violence and discrimination toward suicidal subjects. In addition, this hermeneutical injustice is partly founded on the fact that suicidal subjects experience hermeneutical marginalization. As demonstrated earlier, suicidal people are not (or very rarely) invited to contribute to knowledge construction on suicidality by either the fields of suicidology or critical suicidology. This makes the theorizing of suicidist oppression incredibly challenging for suicidal people, since no existing suicide-related discourses allow one to conceive this form of oppression.

— alexandre baril, suicidism: a new theoretical framework to conceptualize suicide from an anti-oppressive perspective (emphasis mine)