Reasonable Discussion: Privilege

[ThreePointTakedown]

17 minutes ago, jross said:

Are short people discriminated against? [yes]  Are they oppressed? [no]

 

If you can understand why that is true for short people then you can understand why it is true for white males.

Anyone can be treated differently due to their traits rather than merit.  That is discrimination.

Short people, white people, black people, women, poor, etc. are not subordinated by a power system that compounds disadvantages across life in a way that their personal agency cannot override.  They are not oppressed.

I do not agree. 

What sources of information did you use to come to these conclusions? 

https://dobetter.esade.edu/en/undeserving-poor

Did this article give you something to think about and maybe reconsider the 'personal agency' fallacy?

[Bigbrog]

1 hour ago, ThreePointTakedown said:

 

I do not agree. 

What sources of information did you use to come to these conclusions? 

https://dobetter.esade.edu/en/undeserving-poor

Did this article give you something to think about and maybe reconsider the 'personal agency' fallacy?

[Gene Mills Fan]

1 hour ago, ThreePointTakedown said:

 

I do not agree. 

What sources of information did you use to come to these conclusions? 

https://dobetter.esade.edu/en/undeserving-poor

Did this article give you something to think about and maybe reconsider the 'personal agency' fallacy?

    So we just need to find out who is unlucky??  or are all the poor just unlucky???

[Scouts Honor]

2 hours ago, ThreePointTakedown said:

 

I do not agree. 

What sources of information did you use to come to these conclusions? 

https://dobetter.esade.edu/en/undeserving-poor

Did this article give you something to think about and maybe reconsider the 'personal agency' fallacy?

democrats/morons  but i repeat myself

pretending not to understand anything 

[jross]

6 hours ago, ThreePointTakedown said:

 

I do not agree. 

What sources of information did you use to come to these conclusions? 

https://dobetter.esade.edu/en/undeserving-poor

Did this article give you something to think about and maybe reconsider the 'personal agency' fallacy?

Are you asking to know what the definition of discrimination and oppression is?

I'm old enough to know many people that rose from poverty and food stamps to self sufficiency.  The article does not describe oppression.

[jross]

What???

 

[1032004]

10 hours ago, jross said:

Are short people discriminated against? [yes]  Are they oppressed? [no]

 

If you can understand why that is true for short people then you can understand why it is true for white males.

Anyone can be treated differently due to their traits rather than merit.  That is discrimination.

Short people, white people, black people, women, poor, etc. are not subordinated by a power system that compounds disadvantages across life in a way that their personal agency cannot override.  They are not oppressed.

So you at least agree blacks are discriminated against as well, correct?

[mspart]

32 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

So you at least agree blacks are discriminated against as well, correct?

How about everyone is discriminated against and we have equity.   End of conversation.  

mspart

[Caveira]

53 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

So you at least agree blacks are discriminated against as well, correct?

 

[1032004]

23 minutes ago, Caveira said:

 

Now do slaves in the US, and it’s pretty much only blacks and some native Americans 

Edited April 17 by 1032004

[Caveira]

3 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Now do slaves in the US, and it’s only blacks 

Europeans migrated here too boss.   So no.  
 

 

 

[Scouts Honor]

9 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Now do slaves in the US, and it’s pretty much only blacks and some native Americans 

again, slavery only bad in the US?

and no, blacks weren't the only slaves in the US 

[1032004]

45 minutes ago, Scouts Honor said:

again, slavery only bad in the US?

and no, blacks weren't the only slaves in the US 

Europeans were not slaves in the US.  Indentured servants were not slaves.

[Caveira]

Just now, 1032004 said:

Europeans were not slaves in the US.  Indentured servants were not slaves.

The topic is stupid.  People alive today didn’t enslave anyone in this country.   We don’t owe them $$$ especially if people who enslaved our ancestors don’t owe us $$$

[jross]

3 hours ago, 1032004 said:

So you at least agree blacks are discriminated against as well, correct?

Of course but not oppressed.