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The underlying mechanic can be understood through the following steps:
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Take a category of people, such as a gender or a skin color. then assign it an inherited original sin, specific to the category. While this assignment of original sin is often done through religion, it can also be done through ideological concepts such as twisting [[intersectionality]] into [[inverted intersectionality]]
  
* Step 1: Take the simple fact that in every [[social context]] there are some categories which are generally held in higher esteem than others.
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==Examples==
* Step 2: Remove the need for context, turning the position into an absolute where the category ''in itself'' is regarded as either “privileged” or “oppressed”.
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* [[Misogony]]: Arguing that all women are more sinful and less valuable than any man, based on a notion that Eve would have been more to blame than Adam for the two of them eating the forbidden fruit.  
* Step 3: Transmute the category from representing a label or characteristic, to instead refer to the actual persons typically associated with the label. Suddenly each single person who can be labeled as (insert category here) is now to be constructed as being a person who is a priori “a privileged person” or a priori “an oppressed person” - regardless of circumstances.
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* [[Racism]]: Arguing that Africans (and perhaps also other dark-skinned people) are somehow the descendants of Noah's son Ham... and thus God has commanded that all Africans should be held in slavery forever as punishment for Ham once having seen his father Noah drunk and naked.
* Step 4: Now transmute these actual human beings into symbols and [[scapegoating | scapegoats]]. If you are included in the privileged category, then you are the assigned to ''be'' the oppressor and even be the oppression itself – an inherited [[category original sin]] of which you can never be forgiven.
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* [[Antisemitism]]: Arguing that all Jewish people are personally guilty of murdering Jesus Christ.
* Step 5: Now add intersectionality to this mess, thus pointing out that ''everyone'' belongs to several privileged categories – thus everyone is the enemy, nobody deserves any care or compassion, we should simply hate and despise everyone without exception.
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Revision as of 17:52, 14 March 2021

Take a category of people, such as a gender or a skin color. then assign it an inherited original sin, specific to the category. While this assignment of original sin is often done through religion, it can also be done through ideological concepts such as twisting intersectionality into inverted intersectionality

Examples

  • Misogony: Arguing that all women are more sinful and less valuable than any man, based on a notion that Eve would have been more to blame than Adam for the two of them eating the forbidden fruit.
  • Racism: Arguing that Africans (and perhaps also other dark-skinned people) are somehow the descendants of Noah's son Ham... and thus God has commanded that all Africans should be held in slavery forever as punishment for Ham once having seen his father Noah drunk and naked.
  • Antisemitism: Arguing that all Jewish people are personally guilty of murdering Jesus Christ.