“Whatever mainstream Western liberalism is--and I have no useful definition of it beyond something at its core transactional, centered on the magnanimous, enlightened image of the self and the dissonant belief that empathizing with the plight of the faraway oppressed is compatible with benefiting from the systems that oppress them--it subscribes to this calculus.” OppressionLiberalismOppressedProgressivismProgressivesLiberalsSystems Of OppressionWestern Liberalism Book:One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This