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I'm sorry for you that you accept victimhood. I never accepted a victim label. Ain't in my DNA, but some relish being a victim. A victim makes failures in life someone else's fault.
Last edited by texan2yankee; 09-24-2017 at 04:14 PM..
I don't really think oppression is something you feel, but something you experience.
Some on this forum talk about feeling like slaves, and I suspect that if they had the experience of actually being slaves, the difference would become clear.
I lived as a Jew in the USSR of the 70-s, 80s. And I just laugh when somebody in USA *of today* says that he is oppressed. Pulease, give me a break.
False equivalency.
A black man living in the US in the 1960 had significantly more rights and a better life than a Jew living in Germany in 1938. Does this mean the black man has no just claim of his rights being violated?
I'm sorry for you that you accept victimhood. I never accepted a victim label. Ain't in my DNA.
I'm white, but I understand that my experiences in life aren't going to be like those who aren't white. We don't bear the same scrutiny or suffer the prejudices or preconceived notions when it comes to interacting with the police, or finding employment, or just being in public day to day. I'm not assigning victimhood, I'm just saying it's often ****tier for people of color in this country.
I don't really think oppression is something you feel, but something you experience.
Some on this forum talk about feeling like slaves, and I suspect that if they had the experience of actually being slaves, the difference would become clear.
Even some football player was saying he felt like a slave.
I'm white, but I understand that my experiences in life aren't going to be like those who aren't white. We don't bear the same scrutiny or suffer the prejudices or preconceived notions when it comes to interacting with the police, or finding employment, or just being in public day to day. I'm not assigning victimhood, I'm just saying it's often ****tier for people of color in this country.
Did you offer to give up your college admission spot for a minority college applicant? Did you offer to give up your job so a minority applicant could be hired instead?
You aren't doing a damn thing that costs you anything.
Last edited by texan2yankee; 09-24-2017 at 04:32 PM..
Why do so many people think it is the same thing? Does feeling oppressed actually spit in the face of people who are actually living under oppression?
Well, yes it does. But, not being actually oppressed yet feeling oppressed could still have it's negative results. I suppose you could call it complicated.
Did you offer to give up your college admission spot for a minority college applicant? Did you offer to give up your job so a minority applicant could be hired instead? Virtue signaling BS.
That's not how affirmative action works.
And are you not signaling your virtues, callous as they are?
Well, yes it does. But, not being actually oppressed yet feeling oppressed could still have it's negative results. I suppose you could call it complicated.
And let's not forget the other common possibility: feeling free but being oppressed.
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