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"dana - you sound like a wonderfully empathetic and sympathetic individual but it is clear that in situations where you can't fit yourself into the victim's role, you will look around to make sure there is someone being victimized. "
No....I just take a political analysis of a political problem. I couch it in terms of battle because there is a battle being fought. There are many battles. There is a long tradition of couching political struggles in terms appropriate to warfare. As long as the inequity still exists within the wider picture thne there is still a battle to be fought by those on the losing end of that equation. It's naturally in the interests of someone who belongs to the more powerful group to work to maintain the status quo because the status quo benefits them. Hence it is usually those belonging to the oppressing group rather thna the oppressed group who claim the oppression is part of the past . Anybody who belongs to the oppressed group knows damn well it is an iniquity of the present day.
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