re: WNBA star, Natasha Cloud says "Our country is trash"

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“I feel like I’m gonna see a civil war in my lifetime,” Cloud tweeted.

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I accept your terms

Her message is “little known even less cared about”.

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Not liking the overall direction of the society and calling it “trash” while claiming oppression while being in a position that most would envy are two very different things

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its diffe(R)ent

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Not liking the overall direction of the society and calling it “trash” while claiming oppression while being in a position that most would envy are two very different things

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Of course. “When I do it, it makes sense! When they do it, it’s gibberish”

It’s all hypocrisy and logical fallacies to reduce the cognitive dissonance that might occur if you realize the political opposite of you is the same as you (both sides do this).

Case in point: you’ve made up this straw man argument that people in an enviable position claim they are oppressed, when *most of the time* they are speaking out on behalf of the population as a whole. Hardly ever do you see someone rich saying they are themselves a victim.

But when they speak on behalf of a group of less fortunate people, it’s so much easier to say “what bullshite, this person has it so easy and is so fortunate!” than to address what they’re actually speaking about. And you’ve got that part down pretty well.

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Tigerfan56

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So at no point to merits of the argument actually count for anything? Every analysis is based solely on the political identity of the speaker?

The ironic thing that she and the groups she identifies with is that they don’t realize that their own side is the one doing the marginalizing.

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Case in point: you’ve made up this straw man argument that people in an enviable position claim they are oppressed, when *most of the time* they are speaking out on behalf of the population as a whole. Hardly ever do you see someone rich saying they are themselves a victim.

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"Black/brown communities& LGBTQ+ man we are too powerful to still be attacking issues separate.”

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sounds like she is including herself in the oppressed so your whole argument (such as it is) collapses

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But when they speak on behalf of a group of less fortunate people, it’s so much easier to say “what bullshite, this person has it so easy and is so fortunate!” than to address what they’re actually speaking about.

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it’s difficult to address what she’s speaking about because she didn’t fricking say anything. if her statement is supposed to be profound, or a deep dive into socioeconomic forces, then we need to shut down public schools and figure something else out, because we’re pumping out retards at an unsustainable rate

Dumb arse comment. The country isn't perfect and racism sucks but if she feels her life could be better in Argentina, Germany, Nigeria, etc... then she should go do that.