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by topologistics 2377 days ago
Advocating for some minority group's interests (white knighting) is oppression, but opposing white knighting is also oppression? Seems like a no-win situation for the so-called "oppressor class"
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> Advocating for some minority group's interests (white knighting)

White knighting has the same relation to advocating for a minority groups interests as mansplaining has to serving women’s educational interests, and for the same reason: it involves substituting an outsiders preferences as to what the interests of those notionally served should be for their actual interests.