There were elements of the post I’m excerpting from that I agree with, but I like to argue, so...
Quote: IR80 " Will rap music be banned (basically glorification of drugs, gangs, guns and violence), I very much doubt it.'"
That certainly exists, but c’mon. A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul and I’m sure plenty of others who, if we had any users who had taken on any popular culture references since the mid-90s, those users could tell us about.
Quote: IR80 " there will always be the oppressor and the oppressed, it is nature, and not just human nature. '"
It is true (well, until those benevolent AIs that I mentioned a while back come along). But just because it is true, it doesn’t make it right. And if oppression is inevitable, isn’t resistance to it not only also inevitable but more legitimate?
Quote: IR80 " Conflating racism, subjugation,opression, inequality and intolerance into one cause under a three word banner ,as is the trend, lessens the importance of each in their own right.'"
It’s an interesting point, but if a problem is seen as being systemic then it possibly begs a holistic approach to solve. There’s lot of stuff over here in liberalsnowflakeland about how these things intersect - if you’re black
and a woman, for example.