{"id":2149,"date":"2010-05-25T14:27:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T18:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2010-05-25T14:27:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T18:27:36","slug":"the-oppression-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/the-oppression-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oppression Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Oppression Olympics!<\/p>\n

Here are some of the events you can watch, courtesy of the Google search engine:
Which Is Worse? Racism, or Sexism, or Asking Which Is Worse?<\/a>
Sexism Is Worse Than Racism<\/a>
Do victims of racism or sexism suffer more?<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t get why people get in stupid debates about whether racism or sexism is “worse” and whether black men face more obstacles than white women face. It’s silly. I’ve created a very simple illustration to show why it’s silly to entertain such a line of inquiry.<\/p>\n

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Take a look at this square. Let’s say that being closer to the top of the square means… better, whatever that is (more opportunities, less hate, more money—however you define “better”). Let’s also say that being closer to the bottom of the square means… worse, however you define “worse.” <\/p>\n

So how would you then describe the situation of the dark-green stars in relation to the light-green circles? Is one simply in a better situation than the other? I don’t think so, since even such a relatively simplistic illustration shows more complexity than the “sexism is worse” or the “racism is worse” crowd would have you believe. I don’t get why people who have presumably taken geometry in secondary and\/or primary school can get into such linear ways of thinking (“I’m ahead, you’re behind” or “You’re ahead, I’m behind”).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Oppression Olympics! Here are some of the events you can watch, courtesy of the Google search engine: Which Is Worse? Racism, or Sexism, or Asking Which Is Worse?Sexism Is Worse Than RacismDo victims of racism or sexism suffer more? I don’t get why people get in stupid debates about whether racism or… Continue reading The Oppression Olympics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[750,917,302],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-oppression-olympics","tag-racism","tag-sexism","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}