The Oppression Olympics

[Thumpalumpacus]

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.  

I met three of his sociology friends - a black female and two Hispanic females.  I would have been quite happy to ignore their race and I had hoped that we could all be friends, but they kept going on and on about gender, race, and privilege, and it was annoying and uncomfortable to the point where I don't want to pursue friendships with people who are so, well.....racist against white people and sexists against men, and who can't see anything about a person other than their race and gender.  

Also, I'm seeing an increasing number of facebook posts about privilege and oppression, and I want to know where I stand.

Weird. I'm a white male member of an interracial family which features both blacks and latinos. I don't get that sort of treatment at all, not even from the California wing of the family.

In fact, I've only had one experience in my life where I was essentially called racist simply because I was white ... and showing the kid a picture of my son (white/Hispanic) took care of that.

I guess you're more oppressed than I am.

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

I'm wondering why you're asking. Your point?

Because anyone can whine about shit. Why should I pay attention to this whining?

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@Dew
Rich black people get pulled over for driving a car that's clearly too nice. 

No, they don't

lol, yes they do.

Question: how many black folk do you know?