The Oppression Olympics

[Amarok]

I doubt that a choice between the current system and a communist/authoritarian hell fully exhausts all possible choices.

classic conservative talking ethier you support the current shitty capitalist autocracy or communism I think Dew needs to read economic theory

[Autumnlicious]

False binary choices requires less cognitive overhead, which for Dew is good because it doesn't have many clock cycles to spare.

I find it funny to see last years culture war trotted out in the Year of Trump, who has so far demonstrated that he and his cohort can outscream, out-safe space the SJW boogeymen of yesteryear.

[Amarok]

False binary choices requires less cognitive overhead, which for Dew is good because it doesn't have many clock cycles to spare.

I find it funny to see last years culture war trotted out in the Year of Trump, who has so far demonstrated that he and his cohort can outscream, out-safe space the SJW boogeymen of yesteryear.

Pretty much they are everything they straw man there opponents as

[The Valkyrie]

White, female, underprivileged surgeons are the most oppressed minority on the planet.

Give me millions in compensation, all you evil bastards.

[Thumpalumpacus]

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

[InquiringMind]

Maybe it's not okay to oppress....at all?

Perhaps we can frame this as the Problem of Evil, which we can divide into natural evil and moral evil.  Eveyone is oppressed by natural evil - by an oppressive snowstorm or an oppressive disease.  As for moral evil, people naturally organize themselves into social hierarchies, with the people on the bottom being oppressed by the people on the top, and the people on the top being oppressed by the people on the bottom.  

Maybe life is just oppressive by nature.

[Socrates]

Everyone is scrambling to grab the victim card. White men get all the shit and it seems as though its okay to be racist to a white man, but racism torwards black individuals or hispanic individuals is strictly forbidden.

Why can't people just get along and stop crying wolf on racism, calling racism on some bullshit like a white man disagreeing with you only makes actual racism get ignored.

[InquiringMind]

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.

[Jesster]

You see this as a competition to be more oppressed? The point is that I am oppressed, but I don't want to be at all. If nothing was wrong, I wouldn't speak up about it. I don't want this. I don't want your fucking pity, either. I just want things to be right. I'm talking about being trans, if you were wondering.

That outside view of the matter must be mighty comfortable. Thanks for your observation. Your voice helps so much more than if you listened.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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

No, they don't

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there an incident of a black college professor in the US what was arrested a few years ago for breaking into his own house?

And, fwiw, I have been on the spot more than once when people of colour WERE stopped and questioned for driving a flash car.  Stopped just so the peelers could be sure they owned it.  As a person who brings whiteness to a new standard of melanin deficiency, this has never happened to me.  Ever.

Boru