Native Americans - Have been forcibly removed from their lands, conquered, murdered, and raped for over 500 years. In today's society, the only oppression that they face is the intrusion of business and government on their specified lands. All native Reservations are under their own laws and are governed independent of the United States government, yet companies are allowed to construct pipelines on their land that they own. This is unconstitutional on every level, as private companies don't have the right to construct things on your property unless you give them the right or the government has a warranty. The natives are being oppressed in the sense that they are losing the right to their land that they legally own and govern.
I'll give this to you. Granted, you're forgetting the tons of murdering and raping that they did to us, but murdering and raping innocent people is bad on both sides of the aisle.
In my opinion, the problem with reservations and being forced off their land could've been fixed through assimilation. That's a huge maybe, though.
Illegal Immigrants - although they moved to the united states illegally, they are still human beings, and can still be oppressed. There have been intensive reports on businesses hiring illegal immigrants cheaply and extorting them under the condition that they may be deported if they are revealed.
There's an easy fix to that, and that's to become a legal citizen.
Also, define "extorting". To me, that means anything from less pay (deserved for actively breaking the law) to beating the stuff out of them for looking at you funny (not okay under any context).
Let's be honest, here, they did set themselves up to be treated like this. You're immigrating to a country where you feel you can flourish and a country in which you feel they'll help you and the first thing you do is get on their bad side by breaking the law, immigrating illegally. You don't deserve a safety net for willingly and knowingly breaking the law.
To add onto that, if the climate in America is just as bad or even worse for these illegals as it is in their country of origin, and these conditions can be fixed by just coming legally, then what's stopping them from at least hopping onto the waiting list?
You're also assuming that the only type of illegal immigrants is ones looking for work. Don't forget the ones that come trafficking drugs, raping Americans and engaging in tons of crime. But I'd be "tribal" for pointing those people out, so that's all you'll hear out of me.
African Americans - self explanatory. Today, oppression isn't as bad as it was before but there's still a huge segregation of school systems. Since african americans are statistically poor due to the lasting effects of slavery, segregation etc. they are often forced to attend zone schools, which like their neighborhoods, are poorly maintained, underfunded, and generally stuffty. As they grow up, their teachers make no attempt to help them, much of the schools problems go unsolved and in general a large portion of black teens grow up thinking that they are bad students and have no future. The teachers treat them like such, and as a result the mentality grows and affects other students, resulting in increased crime rates, poorer grades, violence, etc. States make little to no effort to fund these schools, and rarely document the actual states of their schools.
Yeah, but the segregation of schools is not written into law. No corporation is forcing these people into these schools lest they be punished. It's voluntary segregation. No one's above these people, forcing these people to go to these schools or forcing them to be poor, so you can't really say that they're being treated unfairly. You can't even say that they're being "treated" by anyone. This isn't oppression.
Not to mention this is somewhat invalidated by affirmative action, which mandates that students be picked for them being black over their merits. You also leave out Minority Scholarships, given only to minorities for the same reason.
This problem would've been fixed with stricter policing of black communities, but don't forget, that's "tribal" to some blacks. You can only have it one way.
Ultimately, this is a self-inflicted wound. It's obvious that the majority of blacks support the Democratic party. The problem with that is that the party's platform completely opposes nearly everything that would fix this; student vouchers, merit-based pay, etc. etc. Such opposition of these things stands completely contradictory to what you and the black community wants (to fix this), yet they keep voting them in. The parts of this that could be defined as oppression are self-inflicted.
You're probably going to say something along the lines of "well thats not oppression!" and i'm just going to preemptively call you an idiot just so i can quote it before you say it.
Nice assumption. Sadly for you, though, I provided reasoning. I don't just blurt out things without reasoning because that would be handicapped.
You're also probably going to say "well its their fault!!!" or something along those lines and to that i'm going to refute it with the concept of white guilt.
Blacks ran down, captured and sold other blacks to European settlers of the New World. Native Americans also bought and owned these slaves, alongside some rich, free black men.
Mexico actively invited Americans into Texas and then killed a huge chunk of them at the Alamo after they revolted from poor representation in the government.
The Japanese committed the Nanking Massacre, and Genghis Khan did some really forgeted up stuff to people he and the Mongols attacked.
And of course, you have the whole "Muslim" thing.
Correct me if I missed any groups that aren't white.
Stop pretending that just because someone's ancestors did something, that means they automatically try to compensate for it when they make points against things like this. If that were true, I could say the same about you judging from the things I've listed, but it's quite clear that you don't give a stuff about the past, like me.
When you use a buzz-phrase like "white guilt", it stops being intelligent debate and it becomes finger-pointing and name-calling. It's literally the worst debating you can possibly do.
Overall you got a score of 1/3 (at least).
