(February 17, 2017 at 1:12 am)Regina Wrote:(February 17, 2017 at 1:09 am)Khemikal Wrote: If you'll recall, it was the cake baker crying about being oppressed, lol.Well yeah I guess so, and that was pathetic too haha
To some degree I see it, like I said I'd never deny there's discrimination against almost everyone from time to time. There is a difference between discrimination and "oppression" though, in my opinion it's "oppression" when basic human rights are taken away.
If you have a society where you deem every small thing something big like "oppression", you end up with a point where that word won't mean anything anymore. "Racist" is a good example of this. We've had 20 or 30 years now where "that's racist." has just been accepted as a profound argument that ends discussions. We're now at a point where that word just doesn't mean anything, because it's been so trivialised and is a total non-argument from over-use. People are starting to just shrug off accusations of it, because they know they'll be accused of it whatever they say, sometimes before they even say anything at all ("ALL white people are racist"). In a society where everything is branded racist... "nothing is racist", people understandably start a defensive backlash, and now race-relations are the worst they've been for decades. We've created that monster by stripping the word of all meaning and liberally throwing it around at every opportunity.
So continue to label everything "oppression", that's fine... see the results of it in another 20 years.
I missed this post when I made my previous post.
It's an interesting perspective, I don't think conflating the two is really very compelling though.
I feel like calling someone "privileged" would be akin to calling someone racist in this scenario.
I don't have time to make a full argument on this. I'll try to respond more fully later.
