peradetlic
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Brendan O’Neill made the same point in a speech at Oxford Uni. He’s Irish & likened a black student sobbing over a statue to him being triggered by the sight of a potato!
Sounds like he was being facetious, but he wasn’t. He’s absolutely right. The Irish have suffered horribly at the hands of the English, and didn’t have much fun in the US either but they got the duck on with it.
Human beings across the globe have been treating each other appallingly ever since we began as competing tribes in sub-Saharan Africa. Slavery was so widespread and accepted that it’s even condoned in the Bible, for goodness sake.
And, let’s get real...which group of people have faced the greatest oppression really? Which group were oppressed in every corner of the globe & every nation on the planet since time began and still continue to be today in some countries?
Women.
We were were literally owned by our fathers and our husbands. We couldn’t keep our owm earnings (which were less than any man’s for the same work), couldn’t complain about abuse or rape and had no say in the upbringings of our children.
Every statue of every man in the world is of someone complicit in the oppression of women, no matter how much they are revered for other things. So why aren’t we weeping and wailing & pretending to be “triggered”? Because that was then and this is now & we‘re content to be proud and gratified by how far we’ve come. Why certain group cannot take the same view, I don’t know. (Well, I do know but this post is probably incendiary enough).
Bravo!!!!!
That's also why I flip every time I hear term "feminist", "woman empowering" etc in same sentence with MM. Also why I can't condone Kate role in the family (little woman). Both (K and M) knew what they were doing when they said "Yes". At least K is doing her job without whining and preaching.
Well there's "Sling yer hook" (to trevor) and "Three sheets to the wind" (to hazza at the Inskip wedding) but they don't really count.
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