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It is quite true that white male is, as a category, relatively privileged versus white women and fantastically priveleged versus everyone else.
White female is also a fantastically privileged category.
And having been born in America, through no virtue or accomplishment of one's own, confers astonishing privilege.
The 96th percentile is surely entitled to bemoan being oppressed by the 98th percentile. Oppression need not approach Rwandan levels to count as oppression.
But if, hypothetically, 95% of humanity happened to be less than riveted by the 96th percentile's struggle against the 98th percentile it would not be surprising.
The 99th percentile may find it amusing watching men and women and different ethnic groups and religions fighting each other over their dwindling share of an imploding, disappearing pie.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Not to mention, safer.
olddots
(10,237 posts)and truly absurd ..the melting pot is in meltdown , the one percent are the turds that float .