The Incomplete Cynic

lime-and-limpid-green: holeycynicism: lime-and-limpid-green: thelifeofhannah: communismkills: whoisjohngalt-: insanityisfree: talkstraight: Lefty ‘Win-Any-Argument’ Card Only to be used when you have no valid counter argument…or whenever you feel like it. ^ Exactly. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST! I love this. So you think that racial minorities aren’t oppressed at all anymore? Are you serious? Like it or not, racism is still an issue in society, and ignoring that fact is akin to saying that racism is perfectly okay. This. Anyone who says minorities/women still aren’t oppresses is an ignorant asshole who needs to open their eyes to the world. You use this word, “oppressed”; I don’t think it means what you think it means. Oh? How so? It would take a giant leap to look at life in the (First World) West and try to say that minorities and women are “oppressed” without changing the definition to include the mere existence of stereotypes. Internment camps for Jews in Germany = oppression Internment camps for Japanese in the US = oppression Jim Crow = oppression Being excluded for choosing not to conform culturally != oppression Making less money because you ask for less money != oppression Just like Al Sharpton makes it harder to point out real racism every time he makes a stink about something that isn’t, using the word oppression to describe what goes on in the US ruins the power of the word to describe what goes on around the world - real oppression.

lime-and-limpid-green:

holeycynicism:

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thelifeofhannah:

communismkills:

whoisjohngalt-:

insanityisfree:

talkstraight:

Lefty ‘Win-Any-Argument’ Card

Only to be used when you have no valid counter argument…or whenever you feel like it.

^ Exactly.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!

I love this.

So you think that racial minorities aren’t oppressed at all anymore? Are you serious? Like it or not, racism is still an issue in society, and ignoring that fact is akin to saying that racism is perfectly okay.

This. Anyone who says minorities/women still aren’t oppresses is an ignorant asshole who needs to open their eyes to the world.

You use this word, “oppressed”; I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Oh? How so?

It would take a giant leap to look at life in the (First World) West and try to say that minorities and women are “oppressed” without changing the definition to include the mere existence of stereotypes.

  • Internment camps for Jews in Germany = oppression
  • Internment camps for Japanese in the US = oppression
  • Jim Crow = oppression
  • Being excluded for choosing not to conform culturally != oppression
  • Making less money because you ask for less money != oppression

Just like Al Sharpton makes it harder to point out real racism every time he makes a stink about something that isn’t, using the word oppression to describe what goes on in the US ruins the power of the word to describe what goes on around the world - real oppression.

(via dandy-tan)