The Oppression Olympics

[paulpablo]

Everyone is oppressed in one way or another.  Here are a few more:

Poor Person: I'm oppressed because of my poverty.
Billionaire: I'm oppressed because everyone is trying to get my money.  
Autistic: I'm oppressed because society has negative stereotypes of autistic people.
Republican: The Democrats are oppressing me.
Democrat: The Republicans are oppressing me.  
Left-Handed Person: I'm oppressed because everything in society is made for right-handed people.
Tall Person: I'm oppressed because I have to duck through doorways.  
Short Person:  I'm oppressed because I have to stand on my toes to see the countertop.
Skinny Person: I'm oppressed by a society that drove me to anorexia.
Fat Person: I'm oppressed by the sugar industry and by my slow metabolism.  

Everyone is oppressed.  So how do we decide who is the most oppressed?  And what about intersectionalities: is a straight black Jewish male more oppressed that a trangendered white Christian female?

You can't decide who's the most oppressed based on any of the characteristics that you mentioned.

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Literally the only thing that creates classes and the space between classes, in the US, is money. That's it. That is to say, for example, that a rich black person is more privileged than a poor white person.

Exactly, and that's what I don't understand here.  Money and good looks are both universally considered to be acceptable reasons for granting privilege to someone, and it's still completely socially acceptable to oppress the poor and the ugly.

It depends what kind of social situation you're in. 

It's not exactly high society dinner table talk to say to the person next to you "Shine my shoes you big chinned cunt."

I don't think it's that acceptable.