I answered it. And asked for a real-life example to better judge. I assume this hypothetical person is being discriminated against, legally and imho, if they're refused consideration for a job based on their skin color or sex. "Oppression" seems a stretch, as I would judge that to require persistent systematic official or institutional discrimination.
In that category, you could put Jim Crow & segregation, mortgage redlining, and many other historical injustices. If someone would like to make a case for white males being an oppressed class, I'm all ears.
Last edited by Julio3000; 03-16-2018 at 10:20 PM.
I felt oppressed when living as a Republican in Berkeley. Fortunately, I knew one other and we would get together now and then to whisper about the locals.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
acesfull86 (03-17-2018), Jaw (03-17-2018)
yes, what we need is a thread of people born on 3rd and thinking they hit a triple thinking they are oppressed people somehow
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Is TikiBoi complaining that the girls got more candy again ?
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cajunrevenge (03-17-2018)
fortunately my genetic mix allows me to claim any number of identities...which is why I find some of things people get obsessed about amusing and absurd...but seriously I think it is a mistake for our society to give weight to race and ethnicity on matters such as employment and School admissions...i do think some affirmative action should be given to people from disadvantaged backgrounds including poor white kids
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"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Jaw (03-17-2018)
Everything is economics. There are hundreds of thousands of black people that are more 'privledged' than I was growing up. Money is the key to acess. Without it everything is harder. Not impossible by any means and I'd like to think I broke through buy the focus on race as you said is setting us back.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Slightly different question: Would Facebook suspending Cambridge Analytica be part of the oppression of conservative white men?
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43440043
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
I live in Marin now. I lived in Boston last year.
I work in tech.
I could tell you a thing or two about oppression. But I hate anecdotal ****.
The plural of anecdote is data.
I actually wouldn't mind retiring to Marin. My wife would love it. She is a hippie. I'm not. But I tend to have an Aspergerish relationship with my environment. So it wouldn't matter. As long as there are a couple decent taquerias within walking distance I'm good.
I went to visit my niece in Humboldt county last year. I think that's how Marin must have been 50 years ago.
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"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
I like it here. I live smack-dab off the Marin side of the GGB, so I'm not very 'deep' into the county. I've been out to visit Fairfax and Russian River and some of the other contemporary hippie enclaves, but it does seem that the area, as a whole, is almost post-gentrification now. Fairfax, for example, seems counter-culture for show. The further north you push (San Rafael, Novato, up to Rohnert Park and Santa Rosa) is much more traditionally suburban. Traditionally suburban for California, that is.
My cousin lives in Oakland (Lake Merritt) and I find that area extremely nice, although I don't think I could ever live in the East Bay. I work in the city and I've contemplated moving down there when my lease is up, although it would almost surely mean giving up my car and completely changing the way I live. I do like getting away from it all when I come home. Marin is really quiet.