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There are no oppressed people in America
Townhall ^ | 10/01/2017 | John Hawkins

Posted on 10/01/2017 8:15:46 AM PDT by Az Joe

There are American women in my Twitter feed who think they are more oppressed than women in Saudi Arabia. I. Can't. Even." -- John Podhoretz

Never before have so many claimed to be so oppressed and mistreated over so little as Americans in 2017.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: america; oppressed
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To: Az Joe

You are not oppressed if you fail to take advantage of the opportunities available to you. If you are allowing peer pressure to keep you down, first blame yourself and then, and only then, blame your fellows who have convinces you to live apart from society at large.


41 posted on 10/01/2017 12:36:50 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Az Joe

Fat chicks that can’t get a BF think they’re oppressed in the USA.


42 posted on 10/01/2017 12:38:59 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

“Fat chicks that can’t get a BF...”

Better hope they don’t rise up! From personal observation, I’m pretty sure they’re in the majority.


43 posted on 10/01/2017 1:17:54 PM PDT by beelzepug (H,MN! WIAM? DMS!)
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To: Sedona13

Good point. In those situations the government oppresses all!


44 posted on 10/01/2017 1:49:45 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I’m with ya on those. The article is referring to ethnic and racial groups claiming “oppression” just because of their membership in some group, not because of some action taken by them or their group.


45 posted on 10/01/2017 1:52:56 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: Az Joe

Judging from the actions of our elected elite, their appointed bureaucracy and their connected cronies all the rest of us are to be oppressed to the fiscal maximum.


46 posted on 10/01/2017 5:13:58 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: tflabo

No, it’s a profitable small business.


47 posted on 10/02/2017 4:07:17 AM PDT by steve8714 (Primary ALL Republican senators. Yeah, all.)
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