The definition of oppression I see used most in established dictionaries is something words to the effect of this - "consistent unfair treatment of an individual or group, especially where there is a misuse of political power". It's usually more or less that.
I truly don't think very many people (I won't say *none*) are actually oppressed in The Western World, we're just not. Literally the only group I think even have a semi-decent claim to the word is perhaps black people.
I will never say there are no problems and that there's no discrimination, because that's a blatant lie, you don't have to look that far to find a genuine case discrimination, and with Trump in office that's probably getting worse now. We have a right and genuine case to discuss these issues and I won't take that away from people. That said, I dislike people throwing big words like "oppression" and "patriarchy" and even "racism" and "homophobia" around lightly, because they lose all meaning and get trivialised. While yes it's kinda shitty and we can definitely criticise it, I'm reluctant to call Christian cake bakers refusing service to gays "oppression", while gays and lesbians are being butchered by the state in Saudi Arabia. They are not fucking comparible on any level.
If the biggest issue you have to cry over is that someone "misgendered" you as a "she" instead of a "zie" you're not doing too badly honey.
I truly don't think very many people (I won't say *none*) are actually oppressed in The Western World, we're just not. Literally the only group I think even have a semi-decent claim to the word is perhaps black people.
I will never say there are no problems and that there's no discrimination, because that's a blatant lie, you don't have to look that far to find a genuine case discrimination, and with Trump in office that's probably getting worse now. We have a right and genuine case to discuss these issues and I won't take that away from people. That said, I dislike people throwing big words like "oppression" and "patriarchy" and even "racism" and "homophobia" around lightly, because they lose all meaning and get trivialised. While yes it's kinda shitty and we can definitely criticise it, I'm reluctant to call Christian cake bakers refusing service to gays "oppression", while gays and lesbians are being butchered by the state in Saudi Arabia. They are not fucking comparible on any level.
If the biggest issue you have to cry over is that someone "misgendered" you as a "she" instead of a "zie" you're not doing too badly honey.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
