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dhol82

(9,650 posts)
1. Love the aphorism:
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 05:59 PM
Jan 2017

When you have had privilege all your life, equality seems like oppression.

Sorry for mangling it but you get the drift.

Jacob Boehme

(789 posts)
3. As my Irish gandmother would say...
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 06:09 PM
Jan 2017

Ah, sure... tis' all manner of dumbness showing in dat' one now.

ymetca

(1,182 posts)
5. More than "seems"
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 06:10 PM
Jan 2017

It generally IS a man's fault. Look around and behold the rancid mesh of patriarchal hierarchies conspiring to trash this planet at the expense of women, the dark-skinned and the poor.

A billion people are now of no use to the system they've contrived. And that number is rising. So what's next? War again, apparently...

 

FreeStateDemocrat

(2,654 posts)
7. The the guy is 81 and done, that's an excuse, it is the younger ones who believe it that worry me.
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 06:15 PM
Jan 2017
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
8. That is exactly what the 4chan meme crowd that voted for Trumps says too!
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 06:17 PM
Jan 2017

So he bought the alt-right garbage! Just another pathetic mark imo.

Vinca

(53,997 posts)
10. Sounds like he's wallowing in victimhood for some reason.
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 06:44 PM
Jan 2017

In the history of the country it's been white men who have had all the advantages. Women and minorities are only trying to catch up.

roamer65

(37,957 posts)
12. He's unhappy he can't grab women by the p@$$y and get away with it anymore.
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 07:41 PM
Jan 2017

Sounds like a misogynistic POS.

Squinch

(59,528 posts)
14. Poor thing. Men only make 30% more than women doing the same job. How will the poor
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 11:03 PM
Jan 2017

oppressed dears ever overcome the injustice?

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