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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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We have men who have gotten extraordinarily wealthy and famous playing a game who protest the flag of the nation that put them not just in Americas wealthiest 1%, not just in the global 1%, but in the historical 1% of everyone who has ever lived.
We have pampered college students at expensive private schools having hissy fits because someone they disagree with is allowed to speak at an event on campus theyre not even required to attend.
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:15:46 AM PDT
by
Az Joe
To: Az Joe
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:20:13 AM PDT
by
tflabo
To: Az Joe
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:20:15 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: Az Joe; camle; Alkhin; Professional Engineer; katana; Mr. Silverback; MadIvan; agrarianlady; ...
Philosophically speaking, and I am speaking philosophically here, are there people who should be?
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:23:42 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Because it's a firearms related word, I'm triggered by "trigger"...)
To: Az Joe
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:25:29 AM PDT
by
Eddie01
To: null and void
At least rounded up and deported/interred.
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:26:57 AM PDT
by
Az Joe
(Gloria in excelsis Deo)
To: rktman
Slowing down in my old age.
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:27:26 AM PDT
by
Az Joe
(Gloria in excelsis Deo)
To: Az Joe
The author is white. No matter how good his message is, it will be ignored by them.
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:27:34 AM PDT
by
proust
(Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.)
To: Az Joe
And we have poor who suffer more from diseases of obesity then the historical diseases of want!
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:28:44 AM PDT
by
Reily
To: proust
Hey, if he was Black he would be ignored as an Uncle Tom.
Some Blacks ignore anyone with common sense.
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:29:10 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
To: Reily
Author has not met my wife.
To: Az Joe
These oppressed ones need to,arrange extended visits ( not VIP tours) to the social paradises of their choice and take notes
Saudi Arabia? Venezuela? Iran? Pakistan? North Korea perhaps?
No 4-5 star hotels
No escorts
No drivers please
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:32:16 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
To: DoughtyOne
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:32:29 AM PDT
by
proust
(Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.)
To: proust
Yeah....He must be a racist from a long line of racists, living in a racist country. src
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:34:05 AM PDT
by
Az Joe
(Gloria in excelsis Deo)
To: Az Joe
I got up early. Still slow though. ;-)
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:35:08 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: proust
Thanks proust.
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:36:00 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
To: Az Joe
Actually though there is one group who gets legally oppressed then killed-— aborted babies. Exploited too by demented, greedy and selfish LIEberals.
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:36:45 AM PDT
by
tflabo
To: Az Joe
As a corollary to this - I hear the constant refrain from Catholics and Protestants of all types who continue to harp on poverty and “the poor.” No doubt Christ spoke about this, but to me, as I look around America today, the calls to materially “help the poor” have become just empty slogans.
But for possibly the first time in history, America and the West have created a surfeit of material wealth. The mass of people’s problems, IMHO, don’t spring from real poverty, but rather the opposite - the effects of materialism, modern narcissism, entertainment, and the cultural-marxist politics of these things.
I don’t want to preach cynicism, but I see a need for an “update” in Christian attitudes.
thoughts?
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:37:13 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Az Joe
I disagree. There’s one group still oppressed: taxpayers.
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:37:33 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: PGR88
Your post brings to mind the panhandlers on streets and traffic intersections. Are we to give to them helping meet their needs or is their ‘begging’ a get free money scheme perhaps to feed their addictions?
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posted on
10/01/2017 8:42:28 AM PDT
by
tflabo
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