Filthy Lucre
Adventurer
Because I wanted to?
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D&D General The Art and the Artist: Discussing Problematic Issues in D&D
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Gradine
The Elephant in the Room (she/her)
You seem to be mistaking this for a conversation about what is actual. This entire conversation is about what is possible, and how to achieve it. If your only contribution is simply "It's not, and you can't" then you've wasted a lot of additional words on unnecessary threadcrapping and you might want to see yourself out.
Filthy Lucre
Adventurer
Can you quote me where I say either of those things? I definitely now believe it to be the latter of my earlier assertion that you're reading into what I'm saying, intentionally or unintentionally, something that isn't there.
That the world is moving forward in the direction you mentioned is EVIDENCE of this principle, not a rebuttal of it. There are many ways to be "strong". Using market pressure to force change that you want to see made is completely compatible with that maxim.
If you're really arguing against me, you're just saying that you can cause things to happen without exerting any kind of power or influence. Is that the position you're advocating for? The point of that flippant expression is that unless you can make something happen, how you feel about it doesn't matter.
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All of ours. Next question!
Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
In a just world, it would fall entirely on people who ask questions like that.
Alas.
I like that in theory, but I'd like it to actually be accomplished too.
Filthy Lucre
Adventurer
If only you had the power to enforce your will and make the world conform to your vision of justice.
Alas.
Gradine
The Elephant in the Room (she/her)
Well, that was a complete waste of time. Now, where were we, before we were so rudely interrupted?
So yeah, the whole point of the concept of "privilege" is not that "you should feel bad for being white/straight/cis/etc.", it's that "hey, recognize that systemic advantages have been unbalanced in your favor, maybe don't get in the way of/maybe pitch in on efforts to tip them back the other and/or create a more level playing field."
If somebody unfairly gets a 30 yard head start in a race, "fairness" is not restarting the race but letting them stay where they already are. Given what the metaphor represents, and the idea that it's bad to go backward, the next best thing is to give everyone else that same 30 yard head start.
So yeah, the whole point of the concept of "privilege" is not that "you should feel bad for being white/straight/cis/etc.", it's that "hey, recognize that systemic advantages have been unbalanced in your favor, maybe don't get in the way of/maybe pitch in on efforts to tip them back the other and/or create a more level playing field."
If somebody unfairly gets a 30 yard head start in a race, "fairness" is not restarting the race but letting them stay where they already are. Given what the metaphor represents, and the idea that it's bad to go backward, the next best thing is to give everyone else that same 30 yard head start.
Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
Oh I'd make a great supreme emperor. Absolute power would absolutely not corrupt me.
Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
Maybe it's been said in this thead, but the saying is, "When you are used to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
