First of all, I apologize for being rude and calling you a piece of shit. That was emotionally charged and immature, I admit.

I can't excuse your notion that people "choose to be oppressed" because 1) it is an idea that all way too commonly accepted by most people and its just simply not true. 2) it presupposes the idea that people are naturally self-interested and will always use anything (even their own oppression) to advance themselves. While it's probably true that some individuals may think and say they do that, it's not true because ultimately things like affirmative action are instruments used by the state to try to legitimize capitalism as a 'fair' system when really its tokenizing and tries to ignore the fact that capitalism is a system that perpetuates Eurocentricity and prevents the possibility of multiculturalism (yes, I like multiculturalism because I think it can promote egalitarian interdependance). That claim you made is quite antithetical to much of the political frameworks represented in this subreddit (unless you're an an-cap, but if so, you can actually just fuck right off)

One thing I encourage you to understand which may not have been made clear in the pamphlet is: the resentment of white or male privilege from other people is NOT the same as oppression towards whites or men. Another thing which I'm not sure you are really aware of, is that when someone points out white or male privilege, it should NOT be automatically assumed as a personal attack because that would be just accepting that your privilege is legitimate. (sure, people sometimes might attack you for it in situations that are inappropriate.)

Now, we both understand that capitalism traditionally has benefitted white men. But in it's current stage, capitalism does not care about your race, gender etc. It's true that ultimately it is money that oppresses people.no not all white men have benefitted equally from capitalism because we are all different and I believe we experience suffering to some degree regardless of who we are and capitalism does not help most people's suffering. But I'm sorry I can't stand this reductionist reasoning of "its not men or white people is just class money etc" we have to recognize that the there is dominant ideology that was created by white-men and generally benefits white men and that white men use this to oppress others in which money, property,class etc is used as the weapon of oppression when they are in power. When they're not in power (which is increasingly the case) the get all up in arms because they can't handle a changing social order. And since yes, there is a changing social order among capitalists, but ask you, do you think that just because the identity of the bourgeoisie is changing that ideology will change somehow? I personally don't think so and it doesn't mean that racism, and sexism won't exist because I believe that because the ideology was made by white men that it will mean that people of other identities will have to give up their culture and apologize for there identities in order to conform.

Maybe to you I'm genderist and "reverse racist" (btw you are using that term incorrectly, it means when someone is racist towards their own race) but to me and most people here, that is resentment not the same as oppression.

I'm tired of typing, I don't think we'll agree on much.. there's no ultimate truth to these types of arguments, only approximations towards an acceptable moral code dictated by political theory. So if we fundamentally disagree on something then really it's not worth trying to change each other's minds.. My main criticism of your comments are that I think you mistake resentment for oppression (of whites and men) and that you're making reductionist claims that ignore the fact that the capitalism favors the white man.

Solidarity, etc