06-03-2020, 09:51 AMjRuutu Wrote:

06-03-2020, 09:45 AMteztify Wrote: This is ridiculous. Racism and oppression manifests itself in many ways, some big and some small - all evil. We don’t need to see genocide to recognize oppression.

And it’s not an American problem. It’s a global one. As you’ve demonstrated.

Absolutely, but still asking questions and sharing my thoughts on what I see should not automatically lead to me being labelled as the worst of the worst.

Of course not. We need to encourage everyone to have room to grow and learn, and to learn empathy. The problematic part is that you aren't just asking questions - you're sharing dangerous and inflammatory opinions, the kinds of things that create obstacles to equity. You aren't asking how black people - not just in America but the world over - are oppressed. You're saying they're "so-called oppressed". You aren't innocently taking up a discourse here, you're spreading dangerously uneducated, misinformed takes - your opinion has already been formed. You're not only suggesting that maybe the riots have gone too far - you're diminishing and nearly denying the problem exists at all.

It's a shifting of the goal posts to say that if they were oppressed they wouldn't make it out alive. That's literally not the definition of the word, and you can't change it to dismiss the plight of the black community.

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