Differences
This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.
| Both sides previous revisionPrevious revision | |
| playbook-of-oppression [2026/01/25 20:21] – valah | playbook-of-oppression [2026/01/25 21:50] (current) – valah |
|---|
| | **"Our Fear/Discomfort Justifies Your Exclusion"** | "I'm uncomfortable around trans people, so they should use separate spaces." Cisgender discomfort is framed as a safety/comfort concern requiring trans exclusion.| White fear of Black people was weaponized to justify segregation. White Southern responses to Black emancipation were rooted in fear of racial "mixing" and Black male sexuality near white women. White fear itself became the justification for Jim Crow laws and "voluntary segregation." | Men's discomfort with women in workplaces has become institutional avoidance. Particularly Post-#MeToo. Women's sexuality was historically controlled based on men's vulnerability to "temptation."| Jews were systematically excluded from economic and social life based on Christian anxiety about Jewish presence. By 1938, Nazi Germany had excluded Jews from retail, trade, and public life, framing exclusion as protection of German "national community." Historical antisemitism positioned Jewish presence as inherently threatening.| Don't Ask, Don't Tell was justified entirely on heterosexual discomfort, not evidence of harm. No empirical evidence supported the exclusion; the policy was based on heterosexual anxiety. The same "unit cohesion" argument had previously been used against racial integration.| **Oppressive systems consistently center the emotional comfort/discomfort of dominant groups as justification for excluding marginalized groups.** The mechanism is identical: dominant group anxiety → policy exclusion → entrenchment of inequality. This is distinct from claims about actual harm; it's about managing the oppressor's emotional state at the expense of the oppressed group's access and dignity. | | | **"Our Fear/Discomfort Justifies Your Exclusion"** | "I'm uncomfortable around trans people, so they should use separate spaces." Cisgender discomfort is framed as a safety/comfort concern requiring trans exclusion.| White fear of Black people was weaponized to justify segregation. White Southern responses to Black emancipation were rooted in fear of racial "mixing" and Black male sexuality near white women. White fear itself became the justification for Jim Crow laws and "voluntary segregation." | Men's discomfort with women in workplaces has become institutional avoidance. Particularly Post-#MeToo. Women's sexuality was historically controlled based on men's vulnerability to "temptation."| Jews were systematically excluded from economic and social life based on Christian anxiety about Jewish presence. By 1938, Nazi Germany had excluded Jews from retail, trade, and public life, framing exclusion as protection of German "national community." Historical antisemitism positioned Jewish presence as inherently threatening.| Don't Ask, Don't Tell was justified entirely on heterosexual discomfort, not evidence of harm. No empirical evidence supported the exclusion; the policy was based on heterosexual anxiety. The same "unit cohesion" argument had previously been used against racial integration.| **Oppressive systems consistently center the emotional comfort/discomfort of dominant groups as justification for excluding marginalized groups.** The mechanism is identical: dominant group anxiety → policy exclusion → entrenchment of inequality. This is distinct from claims about actual harm; it's about managing the oppressor's emotional state at the expense of the oppressed group's access and dignity. | |
| | **"Protecting Us From Our Fear - Sexual Vulnerability/Family Protection"** | "Do you want your wife/daughter naked around a man?" Trans women are framed as sexual threats; protection of women/children's vulnerability becomes justification for exclusion.| White fear of Black male sexuality was the primary justification for segregation and lynching. The myth of the "Black rapist" was weaponized to justify Jim Crow laws. White women's sexual vulnerability was explicitly used as justification for violence against Black men. Ironically, most white women's rapists were white men, yet Black men were lynched based on this false fear.| Women's sexuality was historically framed as requiring male protection and control. Government control of women's reproductive freedom was justified as necessary protection. Women's vulnerability to "temptation" was used to restrict their freedom and control their sexuality. Pleasure itself was policed under the guise of "protection."| Nazi propaganda sexually demonized Jewish men as predatory. Jews were portrayed as sexual predators and criminals in propaganda. This sexual framing of threat was used to justify exclusion and violence. Sexual violence against Jewish people during the Holocaust was framed as justified punishment.| Gay men were portrayed as sexual predators targeting heterosexual men in bathrooms, changing rooms, and military spaces. Fear of gay male sexuality was used to justify exclusion from military service despite no evidence of increased predation. The "bathroom predator" myth has been repeatedly debunked by law enforcement and experts but persists as justification for exclusion. | **When dominant groups use women's/children's sexual vulnerability as justification for excluding a marginalized group, the pattern is particularly insidious because it combines patriarchal protection rhetoric with fear-based exclusion.** This adds a gendered/sexual dimension to boundary enforcement. The irony is consistent: the actual perpetrators of sexual violence are within the dominant group, yet marginalized groups are scapegoated. This mechanism appears across all categories and has never prevented rights expansion. | | | **"Protecting Us From Our Fear - Sexual Vulnerability/Family Protection"** | "Do you want your wife/daughter naked around a man?" Trans women are framed as sexual threats; protection of women/children's vulnerability becomes justification for exclusion.| White fear of Black male sexuality was the primary justification for segregation and lynching. The myth of the "Black rapist" was weaponized to justify Jim Crow laws. White women's sexual vulnerability was explicitly used as justification for violence against Black men. Ironically, most white women's rapists were white men, yet Black men were lynched based on this false fear.| Women's sexuality was historically framed as requiring male protection and control. Government control of women's reproductive freedom was justified as necessary protection. Women's vulnerability to "temptation" was used to restrict their freedom and control their sexuality. Pleasure itself was policed under the guise of "protection."| Nazi propaganda sexually demonized Jewish men as predatory. Jews were portrayed as sexual predators and criminals in propaganda. This sexual framing of threat was used to justify exclusion and violence. Sexual violence against Jewish people during the Holocaust was framed as justified punishment.| Gay men were portrayed as sexual predators targeting heterosexual men in bathrooms, changing rooms, and military spaces. Fear of gay male sexuality was used to justify exclusion from military service despite no evidence of increased predation. The "bathroom predator" myth has been repeatedly debunked by law enforcement and experts but persists as justification for exclusion. | **When dominant groups use women's/children's sexual vulnerability as justification for excluding a marginalized group, the pattern is particularly insidious because it combines patriarchal protection rhetoric with fear-based exclusion.** This adds a gendered/sexual dimension to boundary enforcement. The irony is consistent: the actual perpetrators of sexual violence are within the dominant group, yet marginalized groups are scapegoated. This mechanism appears across all categories and has never prevented rights expansion. | |
| | | **Social Contagion** | Exposure to trans people/media causes "rapid-onset gender dysphoria"; transgenderism spreads through social contagion, especially in youth | Integrated schools and social contact between races will spread egalitarian ideas; segregation is essential to preventing white children from "getting ideas" about racial equality through friendships with Black peers | Exposure to suffragettes will spread "dangerous ideas" about independence and equality; women in the home might "get ideas" about their own rights from contact with feminist women | Jewish influence and ideas spread like "tainted Kosher morality infecting fungus through societies"; isolation prevents ideological corruption | Exposure to homosexuality makes it seem "trendy" or "cool"; contact with gay people spreads acceptance and recruitment, corrupting traditional values | The mechanism frames *the spread of liberating/egalitarian ideas itself* as the contagion—not the group's inherent nature, but their power to awaken consciousness in others. **This reveals the real fear: awareness is contagious.** | |
| | |
| |
