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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I thought you were saying it is valid to look at what an oppressed group could/should be doing. Then I said "why?" And explained why it doesn't seem valid to me. Then you agree with me? I am really feeling adrift here.
I need to go back to when stuff made sense.
I. Blame. the. Clintons.
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I was confused myself, but happy to see someone kick open the door of focusing on people individually.
The point at issue was whether, if we're assessing people as groups (I don't like doing this, but I'm not fighting the hypo), whether it's acceptable to measure how much a group's disadvantages are its own responsibility versus how much are the responsibility of historical (and if continuing, then continuing as well) discrimination and repression of that group.
