1) White cis lady with class privilege is actively (sometimes genuinely and horribly) oppressed by white cis men with class privilege
2) White cis lady etc. turns around and oppresses (sometimes genuinely and horribly) someone who is not white or cis or class-privileged in direct response to anxiety over own role as second-class citizen.
3) Now white cis lady with class privilege is still oppressed, but she feels better because of emotional outlet of lording it over somebody. Meanwhile, the person of color / person with different gender expression / working-class person or group she's targeted is somewhere between "oppressed" and "in a world of hurt", because she's still got a pile of privilege to deliver the oppressing with.
What I'm saying here (and I'm sure you already are aware- I'm just thinking through it) is that these kind of shenanigans - though I don't know the context you're responding to - sure do reinscribe the basic power structure that oppresses everybody.
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1) White cis lady with class privilege is actively (sometimes genuinely and horribly) oppressed by white cis men with class privilege
2) White cis lady etc. turns around and oppresses (sometimes genuinely and horribly) someone who is not white or cis or class-privileged in direct response to anxiety over own role as second-class citizen.
3) Now white cis lady with class privilege is still oppressed, but she feels better because of emotional outlet of lording it over somebody. Meanwhile, the person of color / person with different gender expression / working-class person or group she's targeted is somewhere between "oppressed" and "in a world of hurt", because she's still got a pile of privilege to deliver the oppressing with.
What I'm saying here (and I'm sure you already are aware- I'm just thinking through it) is that these kind of shenanigans - though I don't know the context you're responding to - sure do reinscribe the basic power structure that oppresses everybody.