Rivka Wolf
Jan 31, 2022

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Actually, depending on that white person's additional identity markers, punching that white person may well be punching down. Are they disabled? Poor? A woman?

Who's doing the punching?

Is a Black man who otherwise has no marginalized identities and is wealthy punching a white person with five marginalized identities?

That sure as hell seems like punching down to me.

Or are people of color immune from enacting oppression?

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Rivka Wolf
Rivka Wolf

Written by Rivka Wolf

I believe we can save the world.

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