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"Oppression"
« on: July 01, 2011, 04:04:36 PM »
By Ol' Remus

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Adult white males, less than an eighth of our population, have more work oppressing the rest of the population than they can possibly handle. In the remote past they only had to oppress poor blacks and the Irish, which took at most a few hours a year 'cause the workload was spread out. Even so there was hardly enough time left over to keep the robber barons and financiers from taking over the country. And you see how that turned out. Those times are long gone yet the larger society acts as if this were the nineteenth century and oppressing could still be run part-time.

Actually, things have gone from unmanageable to critical with the invention of ever-more victims groups—gays, latinos, women, the homeless, the limousineless, and more. Worse, since any like-minded entrepreneurs can designate themselves a victim group and demand any remedy, unimpeded by any accepted standards, with no thought of how to guarantee that all these new victims get oppressed effectively and equally as the law demands.

Additionally, long-established victims groups are bifurcating and sub-specializing as if the nation's supply of white male oppressors were infinite. Hard-pressed oppressors are being asked to provide a critically scarce resource to clients that freely indulge in wasteful duplication. For instance, there are two separate outfits going by the name Black Panthers both drawing on the same limited supply.

More and more oppressors are complaining that, even with today's low standards, they wouldn't have time to do much else should they conscientiously discharge their obligation. There is talk of prioritizing or rationing or odd day-even day oppressing just to minimally satisfy the demand. Some have suggested victims groups help shoulder the load by taking on some part of the oppressing. For instance, unions could plausibly oppress the open borders folks, and they in turn could oppress the union folks. If mutual victimization was done right, they would all see a legitimate increase with not much effort.

Oppressors also claim the quality of oppression could be raised in this way although none see any realistic hope of bringing back the 'gold standard' features of old that served their clients so admirably. In-person confrontations for instance. Aside from a few hobbyists, personalized oppression has gone the way of doctor's house calls. Occasionally some volunteers will provide in-person victimizing. They say the heartfelt appreciation by the underserved-disenfranchised-marginalized client base is payment enough. Even so, some one-on-one volunteers are now requiring arrangements be made in advance and only pro forma oppression is on offer. Talking points from prospective victims are always welcome, the younger oppressors often don't know leftist politics well enough to get the nuances really right.

Some extravagant forms of oppression, like the classic night rallies and cross-burnings, haven't been available for decades. Available manpower is spread too thin and the workload too great to even consider it. Still, photogenic oppression is a keenly felt need which just can't be met with old pictures and video montages. The reason is easy to see. Set-piece spectacles consume a lot of resources if done right. The payoff is huge, true, but fewer and fewer are willing to take the other side of the deal. In these tough times, pro bono has lost its appeal. Conscientious oppressors tried to fill in with plausible rumors and conspiracy theories for a while but, aside from die-hard support from the SPLC and ADL, the ruse has been mostly exposed and abandoned.

While the notion of white privilege—being oppressed by mere fact of not being white—went a long way to reduce the workload, some warn more such efficiencies are needed. They point to hate crimes legislation and faked assaults as examples of low-cost substitutes, but they're feeble compensation for the lack of genuine, high quality victimizing. We as Americans rightly expect—and need—a more credible effort than what we're getting.

Others suggest that new victims groups meet stricter acceptance standards and be granted scarce oppression resources only after endorsement by an underwriting committee made up of white males and their long term, trusted clients. Supporters of the underwriting committee idea say developing standardized nomenclature alone would yield significant benefits. As it is, oppressors must divide their limited capacity administering to distinctions without substantial differences. For instance, prospective Hispanic, Mestizo and Latino victims could adopt a common designation and immediately benefit from sharing a larger resource, getting more marketable levels of intensity in trade for coveted, but wasteful, bespoke oppression.

Overextended oppressors also point to other consolidations that could help them to better meet their obligation. For instance, cross-dressers and sex-change groups are differentiated mainly by their degree of commitment to the underlying notion. While it's true they represent quite different constituencies, in practical terms their expectations of service largely overlap and could be more efficiently met with little in the way of compromise by prospective clients.

In society as in nature, predators are more endangered than their prey. If something isn't done, and soon, the whole enterprise may collapse. With so much of our economy depending on white male oppressors, already dwindling alarmingly on a per-capita basis, they can't be expected to serve a demand that expands without limit. Oppression is not optional, the fast-growing victims industry needs it to survive much less grow, and not least, the law requires it. An answer must be found.

I'd volunteer to help out but I'm apparently the wrong gender, historically speaking.   ::whatgives::
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