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by SpicyLemonZest 2174 days ago
Lifting people up suggests targeted interventions to help individuals. If they face powerful beauty standards, help them find ways to become more beautiful. If there's a hard standardized test, help them find ways to pass it. Justice movements will sometimes engage in these kinds of things, but it's more common in my experience to say that the standards are simply wrong and need to be replaced with more equitable ones.