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In reply to the discussion: Yes, white men are being oppressed. [View all]ProSense
(116,464 posts)133. It's simple really.
You get a bunch of people claiming to argue from the left, I mean, hard left, and they subtlely introduce these right-leaning arguments that amount to: It's your fault...no, make that it's our fault!
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We are NOT being oppressed equaly, lets give this one up, In EVERY society where theres a ruling...
uponit7771
Apr 2012
#1
+1. And that's exactly what the modern "rights" discourse encourages us to do. Not to mention
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#45
Racism is like a termite infestation. Nobody is arguing that the termites are not a problem.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#154
+1 to prosense, ignoring the "Southern Strategy" emboldens these bastards to enact anti voter
uponit7771
Apr 2012
#183
"The first step toward standing together is not telling other people to shut up"
Aerows
Apr 2012
#221
so long as the focus is primarily on the views of individuals, so long as the discourse of
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#47
Please learn history: MLK Jr. was assassinated during his Poor People's Campaign
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#206
Three weeks after the post was posted, and you still couldn't bother to read it?
Number23
Apr 2012
#226
And you may wish to evaluate leaping into a thread THREE WEEKS after it was started
Number23
May 2012
#234
The 1%ers are not diverse but the rest of us are. White, black, Hispanic, men and women.
libinnyandia
Apr 2012
#218
It's an ethnicity, one which historically hasn't always been coextensive with "white". FYI.
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#102
The content was that only 8% of American families owned slaves on the eve of the Civil War.
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#106
The religious "wars" have always been underlaid with economics. It's just that most
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#103
Yeah, except Marx invented the proletariat, lumpenproletariat and petit bourgeoisie.
joshcryer
Apr 2012
#143
This is part of what I was trying to say and encourage discussion about with this OP:
stevenleser
Apr 2012
#40
You're absolutely right, and we can see how effective it is right here in the replies.
Egalitarian Thug
Apr 2012
#41
Except the poster didn't say any of that. And this refusal to address the kind of points he makes
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#48
Yes, I read his post, as well as your direct quote and your interpretation of its meaning.
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#50
Yes, people are free to interpret words in their "own way". People are also free to point out that
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#63
"when income inequality wasn't as bad as it is now, say 40 years ago, who were the oppressors?"
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#64
As you ascribed your "own interpretation" to the previous poster's words, so you've ascribed your
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#71
You're saying that white men and the plutocracy are coextensive categories? If so, that's so
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#74
So you *are* saying that "plutocracy" and "white males" are the same thing, then? I wasn't
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#84
I have no earthly idea how you managed to get that out of what I wrote.
Egalitarian Thug
Apr 2012
#59
Yes, but to be clear, they are not evil because they are white and/or male.
Egalitarian Thug
Apr 2012
#76
I'm sorry you feel that way. It is not my intention to dismiss or trivialize
Egalitarian Thug
Apr 2012
#86
I'd argue that so long as the problem of economic justice isn't addressed or solved, no individual
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#77
Where do I say that all other oppression is irrelevant? Where do I say that economic justice
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#82
Funny how we're fighting the battle of birth control again, eh? Why do you think that is?
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#87
No one has asked anyone to give up their interests and needs. No one has ruled out "coalition"
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#97
The poster didn't say that there is racial profiling and that blacks are a disproportionate %
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#95
You made a veiled accusation. If you're not prepared to state it explicitly, why are you making it?
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#142
Unlike yourself, I don't make broad assumptions about what people "mean" from one statement.
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#149
It's basic linguistics, you interpret the meaning of what is said. Literalism...
joshcryer
Apr 2012
#187
Love how the flaming amongst each other in this thread proves the exact point of your post.
tjwash
Apr 2012
#93
Pointing out disparities is NOT us being together. There are some progressive that don't think
uponit7771
Apr 2012
#104
+1, "hard to convince these people to fight said disparities if they don't think they exist"
joshcryer
Apr 2012
#140
Oh, God. This thread... I weep for this web site. Or I would if I felt it had any hope at all.
Number23
Apr 2012
#122
I weep for the fact that you can't see how the 1% is dividing us against each other.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#150
Post #47 said it right about you. Your staunch ignorance is exactly why the 1% prevails.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#155
When you can prove it was the elite that inflicted Hell on black people's lives
Number23
Apr 2012
#156
Your wild eyed rants and raves are not "arguments", hence there is no dispute.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#199
Yes, run away with your tail between your legs. And take your laughable arguments with you.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#204
President Obama said it even better than I did. So go ahead and hate on him, too.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#162
Post #47 says nothing about the poster you're talking to and nothing about ignorance.
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#160