The Oppression Olympics

[TheRealJoeFish]

I'm wondering why the OP has any skin in the game.

Good question.  I'm a straight white male, so why should I care?  Well, I have a new roommate who is a sociology grad student, so he talks a lot about privilege and oppression, and I at least want to know where I stand.  He is a Hispanic male.  It does bother me a little bit that his whole ideology is based on the belief that white males are society's master oppressors, and I sometimes wonder why he's even nice to me at all given that his worldview points to me, the white male, as his oppressor and the source of all evil in society.  

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Bolded seems like an egregious misunderstanding of ideas about privilege and oppression.  If he's literally told you that you, as a white man, have oppressed him, then the misunderstanding is his.  If you've heard him talk about the "privilege of the white male class that effectively oppresses minority groups" and have interpreted this to mean that he's calling you an oppressor because you're a white male, then the misunderstanding is yours.