this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2026
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Being able to tell the difference between people who have historically been exploited and oppressed and those powerful people feigning it is an easy task. Rascists do it. White supremicists do it. It is no reason to abandon the tools of restoration for the oppressed. It's not the only one, but it is one.
Again, if you are suggesting it is legitimate for one, it becomes transitively legitimate for the other, regardless of whether you think it should. If you are saying it is a legitimate tactic, everyone can use it, even the people you don't like, and you are just diving into a multigenerational, essentialist, retributive justice death spiral.
Change comes from the oppressed organizing in their own spaces and not by holding the moral high ground.
The powerful will do whatever they need regardless of the moral high ground or not. They haven been using exclusion for centuries to maintain their position. They don't need my 'permission' or a 'logical precedent' to gatekeep. They have the systemic power to do it regardless.
They manufacture legitimacy for themselves using 'tradition,' 'efficiency,' or 'safety' to mask their gatekeeping. They don't borrow legitimacy from the marginalized. Throughout history, the dominant group has never waited for a logical 'green light' from the oppressed to justify exclusion. And they won't give up power because we have the moral high ground.
If we 'disarm' and stop creating restorative spaces, we lose a vital tool for survival, while the powerful lose absolutely nothing. Abandoning a functional tool for restoration (like a support group or a focused conference) because a bad actor might mislabel their own dominance as 'restoration.' Thatβs like saying we shouldn't use a scalpel to save a life because a murderer might use one to take one. The intent and the material outcome are what define the action, not the fact that a blade was used.
They will continue to exclude because they can, with or without a consistent moral philosophy. You are prioritizing the 'purity' of a logical rule over the material survival of a group.
Can you name a single historical instance where a dominant group stopped a practice of exclusion because they realized they no longer had the 'transitive legitimacy' to continue it?
I just want to say it is so refreshing to finally see a comment from someone who genuinely understands power and oppression finally shine through in a thread that has been so muddled and confused it's been maddening to read.
Thanks. Just as surprising is the lack of empathy that would imagine why someone might need that space. I wonder if it's been all in vain.