“ Well, you know, minority politics has been a lot easier to sell than to just say, “Being human ought to get you human dignity,” full stop. If you can pin down the difference, if you can make the difference the salient issue, it somehow makes it easier for people to stomach the fact that they can’t go out and just beat people over the head. I don’t know why that is. I find it intensely frustrating.
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#in which Eric keeps quoting me omg stawp
#but yes
#this I believe and this is important
#being human ought to get you human dignity full stop
#ethics
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Hanne Blank in this interview
posting this largely because I think it links with something Meda said a while back (about internet social justice warriors, though I think it has broader relevance): “a lot of sj goes with the causality ‘hurting people in these particular ways is bad because it’s oppressive,’ which is really disturbingly full of loopholes. when really oppression is bad because it is HURTING PEOPLE but I have actually seen serious posts on here that assert the converse. and it scares me because, like, do they not want to think about people being hurt? do they want it to be okay to hurt people, in some situations? what is the deal there”
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silentpunk said:
mmhmm, the loop holes!
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