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- From: garry@rice.edu (Garry C. King)
- Subject: Re: Who Is Really Really Oppressed? (was: Who is Really Oppressed ?)
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- References: <garry-131192102334@nulla-nulla.rice.edu> <1992Nov13.220912.2514@panix.com> <garry-141192182515@nulla-nulla.rice.edu> <1992Nov15.032856.2353@panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:00:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.032856.2353@panix.com>, gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch)
- wrote:
- [lots deleted]
- gf:
- > ... we just
- > thought the blacks were better off.
-
- It seems that Stewart Schultz has pretty much dealt with this one.
-
- gk:
- > | Self-defeating argument. "At least the dominant parts of it..."
- > | contradicts your assertion of (need I say binary ?) "oppressed" and
- > | "oppressor" classes.
-
- gf:
- > I don't think you mean to sound that naive. If you are
- > really unaware of group and sub-group dynamics, I recommend
- > you read a book by -- of all people -- Eric Berne, called, I
- > think, _Group_Psychology_. It probably oversimplifies, but
- > it contains some essential points. One of them, relevant
- > here, is that a dominant group is itself almost always
- > structured into two or more parts, one of which dominates
- > the other(s). The most rationalized version of this
- > tendency is called "hierarchy."
-
- Yes I do mean to sound that naive, if a bizarre inability to see beyond
- commonplace sexual stereotypes is your idea of sophistication. The problem
- with your oppressor class is that an awfully large fraction of its members
- would appear to be "oppressed" themselves.
-
- gk:
- > | The point of the above is this: the concept of the "male oppressor", if it
- > | was ever valid, is dead and buried for today's young adults. (I rephrase:
- > | the concept is active alright, but the reality ain't).
-
- gf:
- > Maybe it is for a community of young adults -- young "middle
- > class" adults, I think we'd want to add. I'm not a young
- > adult, so I can't argue with you from the standpoint of
- > current personal experience. I would note, however, that
- > the necessity for success is derived from the capitalist
- > system and these days, as far as I can see, it affects both
- > sexes pretty equally.
-
- It doesn't. You must've missed the "Liberal men are a hot item" thread.
-
- gf:
- > Once you get out of sequestered groups of young middle-class
- > people, though, I think you'll find it's a different story.
-
- Every year, members of these "sequestered groups" leave to join the rest of
- the U.S. population, taking a goodly number of values picked-up in college
- with them. To broaden things, we could get into the underclass if you like
- (welfare for her, ventilation grate or prison for him), but we've done that
- recently.
-
- Sometimes Gordon, I think you'd have made an excellent Stalinist.
-
-
- Garry.
-