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  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    2 years ago

    everyone who isn’t a cishet white dude knows they would be screwed no matter what they picked.

    That's not quite true, and falls into the same "recent history what all of history looks like" fallacy as reactionaries, who think about the early-mid 20th century as a norm that everything always "used to be like".

    Certainly, there has been lots of oppression along gender and ethnic lines all across human history, but the category of homosexuality as we think of it didn't really come into being until the 1800s, racial hierarchy did not exist until the Columbian Exchange gave it a reason to, and peoples on every continent had various ways that they valued people of all genders (granted, this was more likely among hunter-gatherers than fully settled or state societies).

    It's still true that modern-day hierarchies are going nowhere and this would make collapse particularly dangerous for anyone of a marginalized identity. And accelerationism is still a completely irresponsible position for many other reasons as well.

    The crises are going to happen and we need to prepare for them. Adaptability is going to be a strength, and diversity is a multiplier for this.