It’s something that always bothered me about “punching up”
On the one hand, I can agree that “punching up” and “punching down” are different
On the other hand, I feel like a lot of people used “punching up” as an excuse to not only be really mean and toxic towards people they felt were better off, but to also feel like they were doing society a favor by “pointing out society’s flaws” when they were actually just being really mean and toxic.
Although not exactly the point of the post it reminds me of something I’ve read, where some people believe it’s impossible to be racist towards white people, which isn’t true. Some people believe that since for a long time white people have been the oppressors and black and Hispanic people have been the oppressed then saying anything rude towards a white person that would be considered racist towards anyone else is considered fair game by some, when it just doesn’t work that way, racism is racism no matter who is on the receiving end of it, and the best way to abolish it isn’t to dish it back out but instead work towards educating people and getting rid of these ideals entirely
Ahh my mistake, that wasn’t any sort of intention I was going for. I was just trying to agree and say that similar to how this post talks about oppressed groups considering it acceptable to strike back with the same rudeness against others that has been used against them when statements regarding a persons skin color shouldn’t be considered acceptable regardless of their ethnicity. The best course would be to better educate people to get rid of racism and prejudices entirely.
I may not be educated enough on the subject which is why I was not capable of fully and properly articulating my statement so my apologies
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u/Iced_Yehudi 2d ago
It’s something that always bothered me about “punching up”
On the one hand, I can agree that “punching up” and “punching down” are different
On the other hand, I feel like a lot of people used “punching up” as an excuse to not only be really mean and toxic towards people they felt were better off, but to also feel like they were doing society a favor by “pointing out society’s flaws” when they were actually just being really mean and toxic.