shiegra:leliaana:sorrelchestnut:[snipped]@sorrelchestnut You assert that you see a flaw in wholesale

shiegra:leliaana:sorrelchestnut:[snipped]@sorrelchestnut You assert that you see a flaw in wholesale criticism of the Templars’ viewpoint. The Templars’ viewpoint is that everyone born involuntarily with the gift of magic is under their dominion and control and deserves to be kidnapped and served up to demons. What part of it do you support or see as inherently necessary to fending off demons?This reblogger’s argument depends entirely on the privileged, semantic, bloodless idea (however they dance around explicitly articulating it) that once a marginalized person’s rebellion crosses A Line, it delegitimizes the cause they pursue.Given that you directly referenced the Baltimore protests and real life revolutions, I’m actually surprised you had the nerve to regurgitate the same old Fox News Favourite of ‘Justice Isn’t Angry’, ‘objectivity is superior’, 'once you get angry you’ve lost’ etc etc etc. Like. How dare you. How dare you attempt to define Valid Justice as bloodless and calm, and delegitimize the idea of Justice as an angry force. Justice is a response to *injustice*, to wrongs done to human beings. Justice is absolutely inherently angry - anger and grief, not academic contemplation about whether or not oppression and abuse of swathes of people based on an involuntary feature of birth is justified based on some self-calculated and hugely biased (aka! the way you’re making assertions about the dangers of magic despite ENORMOUS canonical evidence that outside of Chantry abuse and terrorism, they pose not nearly the same threat) pseudo-statistics. Vengeance is reciprocal hurt. Justice is *not* neutral.Basically, this rhetoric is one or two word choices away from 'don’t breed ~hate~!’ and is not even subtle about it. It’s a deliberate choice to put the blame and the responsibility for the heinous crimes done to marginalized people on the shoulders of marginalized people because they responded in a way that the complacent, privileged ~majority~ deemed innapropriate.Note how in the reblog, they follow up every single acknowledgement of injustice with excuses and apologism for the system of oppression in the first place. The assertion that mages deserve to be controlled because they’re ~inherently~ more vulnerable to demon possession (do you want everyone over six feet of a certain muscle mass to be stalked and imprisoned? no? you mean people have been trained to use their strength responsibly, as mages have in literally every other society that doesn’t follow Pseudo-Christianity on Thedas?) the brief acknowledgement of the system of Templars being unjust before going into an entire paragraph about how People Are Mean To Templars Too - derailing! - and more heavy duty, ham handed victim blaming.They literally. LITERALLY. Say that mages are inherently to blame for their own rape, torture, abuse and lobotomization in the Circle system. (Because, guess what, that’s what ‘you’re not inherently blameless for your abuse’ means. And they themselves admitted the Templar system was abusive, no matter how they followed up with victim blaming.) Remember the young soft voiced Tranquil who tells the civilian she fell in love with that it was forbidden, so she was forcibly lobotomized and she is now the property of a Templar, who controls whether anyone can even speak with or interact with her, because Templars in Kirkwall believed mages are objects to rape or murder or torture at leisure? This reblogger believes that she isn’t blameless for her magical lobotomization, or her rape, for the simple crime of falling in love. By. Their own. Words.Then they deliberately draw false equivalencies between individual actions of mages - individuals victimized and terrorized to the point of immoral desperation because they have no other recourse - and an inherent fault in the group at large. It’s pure fucking propaganda dressed up as high and mighty philosophy. Straight out of the Fox News handbook this person obviously loves to tap, or if we’re staying fictional, out of the Chantry prayer bookAnd by the way? Mages with power and vulnerability to demons, X-Men who grow claws and shapeshift - they’re not allegories for real life minorities. They’re allegories for real life soldiers, people who have a greater ability to harm and a risk to use them irregularly because of how they gained them. -- source link

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