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loudwhisper@infosec.pub 3 weeks agoAre you implying that minorities aren’t oppressed and don’t need safe spaces?
What? My only qualm is that you added white to a sentence about gender oppression. Of course minorities are oppressed and need safe spaces.
which I assert is true in the vast majority of the world where English (the language we are speaking) is the primary language for the country
What has the language we are speaking (which is not even my language) to do with what is “historically” true or not? Is this just a classic example of US exceptionalism or what?
Including both in the same sentence is because of the common shared group of oppressors, white men.
Minorities are also oppressed by way more demographics than white men.
If you want any statement to be true for literally the entire world, then your expectations are unreasonable.
Saying that men oppressed women is a much, much, much more accurate statement, for example. There are always exceptions, but we are talking about different things.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Goddess you know what I meant to write, guess asking me to explain was a waste of time!
loudwhisper@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
You meant to write what you wrote, I assumed…?
But I see we are going in circles. So far you are leaning on “that’s the common oppressor” which sounds silly to me if I am being honest. But anyway, whatever. I stand by the fact that your original statement is either extremely US-centric (and frankly a bit racist from multiple points of view) or just generally incorrect. Don’t need to convince you or change your mind. So have a good day/evening/whatever.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Saying that white men oppress people is racist?
Holy shit, that’s comedy gold!
loudwhisper@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
That’s not the argument, and you know it, which you need to understand, now it makes it even harder not to think maliciously about the good faith you bring to the conversation.
In case you actually care about it: I feel your statement not only unfairly characterizes white men (not all of them, taking blame for other demographics too etc., etc.,) which who cares, but also is completely exclusionary of all those women who were are not historically oppressed by white men, for example those in different parts of the world, those themselves part of racial minorities etc., and that’s what I think is racist. Of course, in that US-centric perspective the world is the same as for Hollywood disaster movies…
You disagree for sure, but since you were interested in comedy…