• TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml
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        22 hours ago

        Even if you accept a Settlers-style critique of the U.S. working class, it still does not follow that all participants in an imperial institution have identical agency, power, or culpability.

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          21 hours ago

          No one claimed they are equally culpable, I’m not interested in examining the marginal culpability of settlers and fascists. You’re inventing arguments to contend with because your understanding of theoretical concepts is shallow

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            21 hours ago

            “I’m not interested in examining distinctions” is not a rebuttal to being accused of flattening distinctions. It is a confession.

            My argument is not that enlistment is innocent. It is that a material analysis should distinguish recruitment pressure, command hierarchy, profit extraction, and policy-making power. If your framework treats those as irrelevant because everyone falls under the same condemned category, then yes, that is moral flattening with theoretical vocabulary.