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Title: Online Internet Sophisim Author: autogynephilies anonymous Date: September 3rd 2021 Language: en Topics: social media, intersectionality Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CTXT25arvxw/?utm_medium=copy_link Notes: Transcribed by Carol K
Solipsism: from Latin solus 'alone', and ipse 'self', is the
philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an
epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything
outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds
cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.
Intersectionality: an analytical framework for understanding how aspects
of a person's social and political identities combine to create
different modes of discrimination and privilege. The term was
conceptualized and coined by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw in 1989.
Intersectionality dentifies multiple factors of advantage and
disadvantage. Examples of these factors include gender, caste, sex,
race, class, sexuality, religion, disability, physical appearance, and
height. These intersecting and overlapping social identities may be both
empowering and oppressing.
Over our past few years of internet micro-infamy we've had to deal with
a lot of people using theories of intersectionality horribly. We've seen
close friends blackmailed until they handed over their sizable account
and password to their blackmailers, else the blackmail be extended to
their friends and mutuale. We've seen people attempt to create and work
within hierarchies of oppression and privilege at which they situate
their own intersectional identity at the height of oppression. We've
seen people insist on globalizing their American ideas of how the world
and oppressive systems work. And we've witnessed an absolute fuckload of
horrible comments couched in intersectional language. Basically, we've
seen a lot of people using intersectionallity wrong.
And we think we've come up with a term for a specific way this occurs.
Intersectional-Solipsism: the idea that emotions are valid ways of
interpreting reality and that hierarchies of oppression and privilege
can determine whose emotions are most valid, with the caveat hat you
only have knowledge of your own oppression and feel you can determine a
true reality based off your own emotions as an oppressed person. Because
you cannot know others' oppression and your emotions are valid, you are
entitled to place your own experience as central and correct as long as
you remain certain you are not talking to someone more oppressed than
you, something you can never verify, and have the capacity to refute as
you can only verify your own experience and thus place it centrally.
This is without a doubt an overly complex way of saying "some
narcissists maintain and increase their own strength by using a
narrative of their own weakness against any social adversity they face",
but I think adding the Solipsism aspect creates a useful way for
understanding how their mind works. Not only how they play
intersectional identities like a game to win, but how that conception
and wielding of intersectionality relies ultimately on a refusal to
listen or believe others, and a treatment of ones own opinions and
emotions as the only ones verifiable within this world, and thus the
ultimate litmus test.
Central to this conception is aggression. I don't think you could accuse
anyone of Intersectional-Solipsism if they're staying in their own lane,
attempting to understand themselves, and not seeking to win or gain
anything. Ultimately Intersectional-Solipsism is about using your own
identity and emotions to "win" or further your own ends. For instance a
rich trans person who uses OF sometimes might position themselves as a
trans sex worked in order to win an argument, or perhaps even to
blackmail an account they wished to take over who had resently attempted
to comment on sex work without participating in it. Here the person in
question is extinguishing class privilege from their self narrative in
order to seem more impactful in their aggression against the other
account, and would, in this example, use their status as a trans sex
worker to extinguish any attempt at good faith conversation, justify any
harm or insults they do or fling during the interaction, and ensure
their own validity against any intersectional or marginalized status the
other account may feel forced into revealing about themselves.
The reason we used rich in this example is that it seems to be the most
common thing left out by people engaging in Intersectional-Solipsism.
I'm not sure if that says something about the rich, and the way they
view the world. Or perhaps it's more a result of the fact that those
most skilled in the intersectional language required to participate in
Intersectional-Solipsism likely picked it up at expensive universities
or private and elite high schools. Either way, we find it notable how
the one most common trend among people who think this way is their
wealth and background.
Anyways we don't have too much more to say on this term, so we'll just
use this last slide to remind you of how intersectionality is supposed
to work: Intersectionality is a qualitative analytic framework developed
in the late 20th century that identifies how interlocking systems of
power affect those who are most marginalized in society and takes these
relationships into account when working to promote social and political
egalitarianism. Intersectionality opposes analytical systems that treat
each oppressive factor in isolation, as if the discrimination against
black women could be explained away as only a simple sum of the
discrimination against black men and the discrimination against white
women. It is an attempt at understanding and seeing how identities
combine, contrast, clash, and create experiences that cannot be reduced
to a single identity factor.