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So. Aja Y. Martinez is marginalized. Or ostracized. Oppressed. Downtrodden by privilege, essentially. She’s experiencing one of the more common social phenoms in the Western World as a whole- the incessant stereotyping of people, often based upon their presenting phenotype. Whether that be woman, colour, or disability, it’s long been rampant, most noticeably in white collar environments.

Martinez argues that one of the easiest indicators of privilege is assessing comfortability; the more comfortable, the more privilege. Referenced is the “somatic norm”, the idea that each society fabricates a common normality of actions, appearance, and demeanor, categorized by the dominant or creational race in that particular society. Therefore, their actions set the standard for assimilating groups.

My personal relation to this will consist mostly of assisting in Martinez’s bashing of shallow “allyship”. This is admittedly one of my pet peeves in general, as any disingenuous, or worse, half-assed portrayal of any ideal or movement, I find abhorrent. Now, there are probably things that I pretend to care about a bit more than I actually do, but I don’t virtue signal with them, they are not worn on my sleeve. I’ll die on the ragtag hill of my opinions.

A good example would be the black square era on Meta platforms. people just posting this shit in faux solidarity, to simply gain clout or moral high ground by virtue signaling their asses off is insufferable. I’m a firm believer in the idea that if you don’t have anything actually meaningful to do, it’s better to do nothing.