The Oppression Olympics

[InquiringMind]

Just to clarify a law limiting the amount of income an African american can make, would not be oppressive?

Certainly such a law would be oppressive under the definition of oppression I gave, which is that oppression = low status.  But no such law exists.

If you want to continue your line of reasoning and say that there might was well be such a law because black people make less on average, then I respond with this: 

In a society where we all compete for status, there will always be winners and losers.  You can redistribute the winners and losers any way you want by any criteria you want, but there will aways be winners and losers.  Rather than trying to redistribute the winners and losers, which only leads to more fighting, and instead of striving for equality of result, which is impossible in a society where we compete for status, make the gap between winners and losers smaller.  Make winning a little less lucrative, and make losing a little less devastating.  You can redistribute the winners and losers any way you like, but you can't get rid of the winner-loser system.  So make the gap between winners and losers smaller.