zenosanalytic reblogged
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^ NOTHING BUT TRUTH HERE
I think about this all the time when I contemplate how terrible and self-centered nerd culture can be yet how much of their media furthers messages of self-sacrifice, cooperation and inclusion
#Tim Doyle#Fiction#Politics#Exactly#except most of the ppl making that argument are just gaming the refs they arent sincere#like: it isnt that they're unobservant it's that they're trying to create a particular social narrative wherein they#the oppressors#are actl the oppressed#Where the oppressed and their allies calling out that oppression are the real villains#this is why I always get leery at fellow leftists who repeat this conservative line of attack#or the related one that leftists&liberals who call out racism&sexism are ~faking it~#which obvsl implies whiteness&maleness are inherent to leftist & that nonwhite&women leftists dont count#cuz what they're actl doing whether they mean to or not with those arguments is upholding the very systems of exploitation#they claim to want to end#*stares pointedly at E. Bruenig*#but anyway#minitagrants#appreciative reblogs