RE: They’re all bought and sold: American democracy belongs to the billionaires now
February 5, 2016 at 3:44 pm
(February 5, 2016 at 3:29 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(February 3, 2016 at 8:31 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: I don't agree with anyone posting things comparing people to monkeys - no matter what their color. The fact that no one is making such a big deal about the comparison to ALL races is what I find disturbing. All I'm seeing is posts indicating that people of color are offended but that white people shouldn't be. I'm white and I find the whole thing offensive. Period.
How much longer do we have to apologize for the things that our grandparents and great grandparents did to other members of this society? I didn't do those things and in this day and age, ANYTHING that is aimed at ANYONE, regardless of race, with the intent to hurt that person, is uncalled for.
I have issues with being compared to monkeys. Apes, not so much, since I am one.
@Nymphadora
Nobody I'd call sane should blame our current population for what our ancestors did, but it is still worth remembering and teaching so that it does not happen again.
There is no "virtue of the oppressed". Being oppressed is a matter of moment in time, some eras shorter some eras longer. I don't like it when Natives say "give the land back" which wouldn't happen even if I wanted it to. Mexicans also form political action groups trying to claim the West was once part of Mexico, which forgets that would mean the European Latin world invaded the Americas as well which means they too push natives off South and Central America land as well.
I also don't like todays Jews hiding behind the Holocaust. Ann Frank was oppressed and scapegoated and murdered. Now while I will never advocate wiping any population off the face of the planet, that does not give today's Israel a pass for everything.
Humans have always been tribal, and sought power and conquest. Being a victim is a matter of geography and once the oppressed does not mean oppressed forever.
I know my American history and we did some really horrible things to Natives and blacks and had sexism and homophobia and Japanese internment camps. But time changes over centuries and governments change and majorities change. So when any group says, "Look what that other did to me" they are not wrong, but under a different context of history and geography that case cannot be made.
Ultimately all 7 billion of us are the same species, so if you want to claim discrimination or oppression you can be right depending on context of situation. All 7 billion of us are BOTH majorities AND minorities depending where we are and what point in history we are talking about, but we are still the same species no matter what.
