I think the point I wanted to make is that it's easy for some of us to be so complicit in our own oppression that we don't actually get to experience any/very much direct external oppression because we don't let ourselves encounter it. I think... then I simultaneously worry that I'm a) puffing myself and saying "look at me, I'm so oppressed, come see the oppression inherent in the system" and thereby trivialising other people's problems and b) trivialising my own concerns and those of others like me by writing things like point a).
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Date: 2010-09-24 12:43 pm (UTC)I think the point I wanted to make is that it's easy for some of us to be so complicit in our own oppression that we don't actually get to experience any/very much direct external oppression because we don't let ourselves encounter it. I think... then I simultaneously worry that I'm a) puffing myself and saying "look at me, I'm so oppressed, come see the oppression inherent in the system" and thereby trivialising other people's problems and b) trivialising my own concerns and those of others like me by writing things like point a).