[ SECRET POST #6960 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6960 ⌋

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[A cruel prince]

























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Comments

Re: "It's a privilege to even be able to escape"

[(Anonymous)]

This phrase doesn't refer to finding joy where you can, when you can. That includes consuming media and participating in fandom.

It refers to people who have privilege, but don't use their privilege to fight for the marginalized. Frankly, when I first heard the phrase, I was pretty sure it meant those who physically escaped to another country, as it was said in response to white American scholars and celebs who fled to Canada or UK when Trump won. But it can easily apply to privileged folk who now see their own being treated the way that marginalized folk have been historically treated, and don't want to deal with reality.

Re: "It's a privilege to even be able to escape"

[(Anonymous)]

It refers to people who have privilege, but don't use their privilege to fight for the marginalized.

In my experience, this isn't the case at all -- it's literally meant as a cudgel against anyone who isn't performing struggle at all times. And I do mean "performing."

An acquaintance cut my husband and I out of her life because he, a person with PTSD who has been in serious life or death situations, pushed back on her assertion that "numbness is a luxury." She meant it quite literally: only a privileged person could feel numb to what's going on. He pointed out that numbness can be a response to trauma, and that people can sometimes turn a blind eye not because they're privileged, but because they're already in a precarious position and want to survive. She didn't take it well. But meanwhile, she stays behind her keyboard. Her idea of helping the marginalized is to rant on Facebook to her own social circle from the safety of her apartment.

Honestly, it all strikes me as people who feel guilty about their own privilege trying to expatiate it by thrusting it onto others.

Re: "It's a privilege to even be able to escape"

[(Anonymous)]

That may be how that person meant it, but I stand by my statement.

Re: "It's a privilege to even be able to escape"

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I used that person as an example, but they're not the only person I've seen use it that way. I'm not sure how we can say the true meaning is one thing or the other if we're having entirely different experiences with it.