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22 July 2021 18:09Not to be a downer, but do you think results-magic disciplines are dominated by white men of a certain social status because - by some remarkable coincidence - they are people for whom "through my will, I achieve my goals!" and "the only limitation is my own mind" hold material weight...
Like idk, I don't want to dunk on the validity of magic; but there's the question of discernment, the ability to tell between actual magic vs you ego doing a thing and uh. You know, if you're a white man of a certain social status with a job working for like bloody Facebook or something, do you think that's kinda self-reinforcing beliefs about how much of your agency is magically created?
So much of these magical styles are actively hostile to marginalised people - for reasons as long as my arm - but to tie them together, you can tell things about which people these systems were designed to work for, & like maybe marginalised magic has to have a very different character to like, make even a basic amount of intuitive sense.
Like idk, I don't want to dunk on the validity of magic; but there's the question of discernment, the ability to tell between actual magic vs you ego doing a thing and uh. You know, if you're a white man of a certain social status with a job working for like bloody Facebook or something, do you think that's kinda self-reinforcing beliefs about how much of your agency is magically created?
So much of these magical styles are actively hostile to marginalised people - for reasons as long as my arm - but to tie them together, you can tell things about which people these systems were designed to work for, & like maybe marginalised magic has to have a very different character to like, make even a basic amount of intuitive sense.
