Power is something that is multidimensional. It can be beneficial and oppressive as well. It impacts by gender, race, class, and many other ways. It functions through a hierarchy, where those highest up try to maintain their power and seldom share with those underneath unless it profits them in some way or manner. Power is often used as a way to create a perception that is beneficial to those in power. They create the illusion of forms of equality or betterment increasing for the oppressed, when in actuality many things are still being ignore. However, when those lower on the hierarchy receive power it can be used to create momentary change, that is often taken back in a different way later by those in power.
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Yea, I like the point you were making about power being sustained through oppression. One can’t really exist without the other.
Your example of LGBT is something I think about! They’re a very visual example of I guess one could call, “effective progressive politics.” It gets tricky, however. Like you were saying, those people of colour who are also gay are fighting two battles, and I think the latter overshadows of the former. I argue that the LGBT community is often perceived as a predominantly -white- one. It’s almost as though only white people can be properly gay, whilst other race groups have to come with special terms to express their homosexuality. I only know of one specific example, ha, cause I read about it: gay black men who identify with being “down low” as opposed to being “gay.”
You got me feeling some kind of way about the voting thing, ya know. I’m just that way: I’ve given up on the prospect of voting because I see little point in it. But perhaps it’s as you’ve suggested: this attitude works to the Power Elite’s advantage as they’ve only created an illusion of a lack of power. The People have to be capable of something… hmm…
Great video! I tend to think of Power as being very concentrated, but I’m appreciating your sort of “Trickle Down Effect”, hierarchy theory!
Thank you!! You’re so wonderful to even be on my page. Honest.