RE: The Oppression Olympics
February 17, 2017 at 2:04 am
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2017 at 2:11 am by Aristocatt.)
If I am understanding you right Regina; the point you are making, is that having all these groups coming out and claiming that they are being oppressed, is diminishing more legitimate claims of oppression like gay men in SA being executed. It seems like the SA issue is so so so much worse than non-binary gender pronouns that it deserves a distinct word wholly different from whatever is happening to people that want to be addressed with a non-binary gender pronoun
E.g. I personally know a lot of shitty people. I call them shitty people. I do not know anyone that I would call evil. And I have never called anyone evil. Similarly you might say there are a lot of marginalized groups out there, but for the most part in Western societies, the marginalization of that group is not so pervasive that it deserves to be called oppression.
I think there is some merit to that. Though I wouldn't agree with it on the whole, if that is the point you are trying to make.
Edit: Maybe using the Christian cake makers is a better example than the non-binary gender example. Either way, correct me if I misunderstood.
E.g. I personally know a lot of shitty people. I call them shitty people. I do not know anyone that I would call evil. And I have never called anyone evil. Similarly you might say there are a lot of marginalized groups out there, but for the most part in Western societies, the marginalization of that group is not so pervasive that it deserves to be called oppression.
I think there is some merit to that. Though I wouldn't agree with it on the whole, if that is the point you are trying to make.
Edit: Maybe using the Christian cake makers is a better example than the non-binary gender example. Either way, correct me if I misunderstood.
