SOP conversation

[Gormy Cuss]

61. I think I understand what you're getting at, and here's how I feel about it.

It is fundamentally impossible to segregate which oppression is greater in most cases. I'll construct a hypothetical for you. A political candidate says African-Americans cause their own problem because they won't get jobs. The same blowhard also says that women are the core of the family and need to step aside and let men make the money to care for the family. This politician is elected and his party has majority status in both houses.

If I'm an African-American woman, both of those political positions have the potential to affect me. The second part is a women's rights issue directly. The first part is also a women's rights issue because a subset of African-Americans are women. It seems to me that discussing one without the other is ignoring the synergistic effect of dealing with multiple assaults on women's rights by this politician.