You trying to tell me that anyone in that mob "occupying" Seattle has ever experienced a single day of oppression? Any one of these silly assed kids running around the streets ever been oppressed? Where is it? Explain in detail. I'll help you along the way. Individuals being racist is not oppression.
I could go with your self created definition or the one Webster and the rest of the world uses..Oppression is not just how Russia treats its citizens or China deals with dissidents. That is oppression on the highest scale. And we are nto talking about individual racism, we are tlaking about whole groups dealing with on a large scale. Oppression is a strong word and I know you do not like it, and maybe it is too strong for what is happening here, but to say no one is oppressed because they can buy an iphone is just making the world fit to your rainbows and butterflies. When my family members stop being harrassed by the police for doing nothing or people on here stop calling all Blacks worthless and criminals then I can support stop using the word oppression for cases of racism you claim to be small and isolated.
Doesn't matter how much money is being spent on cancer or trafficking. You'll never eliminate either. Just like you will never eliminate racism. But if you think focusing on things like who is on my syrup bottle is a better place for us to spend our time besides a 100 other causes, then you're not as smart as I think you are. The syrup bottle, by the way, is just one of several dozen stupid things (Gone with the Wind, etc) this month alone. Collectively, its one gigantic waste of time.
It is if it is systemic. Oh, and it is systemic. Don't think so? Seen cops being bad lately? And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Are you familiar with chaos theory? I only have a nodding acquaintance with it, if that. But in essence, chaos theory is the branch of mathematics that deals with complex systems whose behavior is highly sensitive to slight changes in conditions, so that small alterations can give rise to unintended consequences. https://infocus.delltechnologies.co...g-chaos-theory-is-important-to-your-business/ Can you see the connection? Can you connect those dots?
I want one example of any public school, company or corporation, any police department, anything anywhere that has a written policy that would be considered oppression due to race, sex, anything. These type policies did in fact exist through the 1960's, which to El OchoCinos point is abominable in and of itself, but that is not the case today. The fact that some racism can run through a single department is not oppression, it's a problem which needs to be seriously addressed, but it is not oppression, especially given the fact that the police departments in question are multi racial top to bottom.
Oh, you want it all written down? Maybe with some incriminating video and possibly some tell-tale fingerprints? Otherwise it never happened?
At a police station tucked into an end-of-the-line subway terminal in South Brooklyn, the new commander instructed officers to think of white and Asian people as “soft targets” and urged them to instead go after blacks and Latinos for minor offenses like jumping the turnstile, a half-dozen officers said in sworn statements. “You are stopping too many Russian and Chinese,” one of the officers, Daniel Perez, recalled the commander telling him earlier this decade. Another officer, Aaron Diaz, recalled the same commander saying in 2012, “You should write more black and Hispanic people.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/nyregion/nyc-police-subway-racial-profiling.html
By the way, the bedroom and bathroom I use in my house will no longer be called Master Bedroom and Master Bathroom. I aint calling no person or no room Master!