Are any people in America actually oppressed?

[MoltenKitten]

Poverty is just bad luck and not oppression. Nobody is forcing you to be poor, it's just the way it turned out.

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[Jairo]

I think it's foolish to say poverty is just a result of bad luck

there are definitely systems at play to keep certain people poor

[IkeTheGeneric]

Poverty is just bad luck and not oppression. Nobody is forcing you to be poor, it's just the way it turned out.

You sure have poor reading comprehension, because nobody was equating all poverty to oppression, it was a part of the discussion alongside oppression in America.

[Damp]

Nobody is forcing you to be poor

might not be forcing you but uhhhhh probably having influence

[Perry]

Poverty is just bad luck and not oppression. Nobody is forcing you to be poor, it's just the way it turned out.

So if you trip down a broken defective staircase and break your leg it's just bad luck and not the fault of whoever built the staircase. With this logic the legal system wouldn't even need to exist because everything can be blamed on bad luck.

Once again moltenkitten provides a broken and half-assed argument and leaves just to come back 5 pages later and present a different poorly made argument.

[Red Spy]

nobody escapes the ghetto, once you're in the life, you can't get out the life, the only way you end up getting out is death, or moving countries.

Is that how you got out

[MoltenKitten]

So if you trip down a broken defective staircase and break your leg it's just bad luck and not the fault of whoever built the staircase. With this logic the legal system wouldn't even need to exist because everything can be blamed on bad luck.

Once again moltenkitten provides a broken and half-assed argument and leaves just to come back 5 pages later and present a different poorly made argument.

The maker of the staircase isn't oppressing you by building a broken staircase. That brown townogy is worse than the ones I come up with.

I think it's foolish to say poverty is just a result of bad luck

there are definitely systems at play to keep certain people poor

such as?

[Magus]

such as?

The payday loan industry, for one. They're designed to get you into crippling debt. Regular loans as well, since being poor is bad for your credit score. Massive healthcare bills, since if you're hit by a car you don't get a choice in going to the ER and you're getting the bill whether you like it or not, plus you'd be unable to work and make money while in the hospital in order to pay off the huge bill. When you're poor and constantly struggling to make ends meet, a sudden large cost (such as a broken car, sudden injury requiring hospitalization, theft, etc.) can drive you further into poverty very easily.

[ketchupninja]

gov't points a gun to your head and steals a percentage of the income you've earned - yes, people in america are oppressed

somebody read atlas shrugged

[Perry]

The maker of the staircase isn't oppressing you by building a broken staircase.

You're right but the people that destroyed our families and segregated us into horrible conditions did. I was simply giving you an brown townogy that would be a little more PC.

If the maker of the staircase made the staircase intentionally to get people injured, then that could be considered oppression. This is where the country's been for the last 60 years.

[Insert Name Here²]

You're right but the people that destroyed our families and segregated us into horrible conditions did.

Which happened over 50+ years ago mind you.

[Clownfish]

reminder that no white, yellow, red, or black men on earth actually owe black people anything to make up for the slave days

[Perry]

Which happened over 50+ years ago mind you.

Its still happening. Go see 13th for forgets sake. Go read all the stuff i wrote about the school system.

[Red Spy]

Which happened over 50+ years ago mind you.

Which is funny as hell given how Path has said he's well off

This is where the country's been for the last 60 years.

The same course of time the civil rights movement really came into being

[Perry]

Which is funny as hell given how Path has said he's well off

my family makes 40 thousand a year, 95% of which is contributed by my mother, which makes our family a lower-middle class family. I personally consider it well off but its no upper class