At the risk of both wasting my time and essentially just repeating the conversation I just had with another user...
| curl-6 said: Nobody in the modern developed world is "oppressed". |
Trans people aren't being denied their very right to exist? The justice system and prison industrial complex don't disproportionately target minorities? The GOP isn't systematically suppressing their voting power? The stacked SCOTUS didn't recently remove women's bodily autonomy? Gay marriage isn't at serious risk of becoming their next target? The Trump administration isn't weaponizing the government to imply that literally any and every minority group didn't earn the positions they worked for? How can any even remotely informed (or even just unsheltered) person actually think this?
| curl-6 said: Blaming things that happened decades or even over a century ago for your problems today is ridiculous. If you were never personally enslaved for example, then you did not and do not suffer from it. |
Do you actually think the effects of slavery and discrimination just suddenly stop after one generation?
| curl-6 said: People have free will, your position in life is foremost the result of your own choices and actions. |
You control your own actions, but not the position you start in or the opportunities you have access to because of it.
| curl-6 said: People should be treated equally. Nobody should get handouts or special treatment. |
In a vacuum, yes. In practice on a systemic level that just solidifies and reinforces the inequities already present.
Last edited by TallSilhouette - on 22 June 2025
