"Lifting a crushing load"

[kpete]

Fairy: If you have to lift this weight every day of your entire life…

Plus the weight of historical inequalities, plus the weight of institutional oppression…

It can all add up to a crushing load!

If that weight looks petty to you … Maybe that’s because it’s not on your back.

http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/01/defaults-reset/

[ryan_cats]

1. To

To quote an author we don't like, why wouldn't Atlas Shrug?

How much is the weight of perpetual victimhood?

[Human101948]

2. White People Explain Why They Feel Oppressed

Tim Wise, anti-racist educator says, "When you've had the luxury of presuming yourself to be the norm, the prototype of an American, any change in the demographic and cultural realities in your society will strike you as outsized attacks on your status. You've been the king of the hill and never had to share shit with anyone, what is really just an adjustment to a more representative, pluralistic, shared society seems like discrimination. When you're used to 90 percent or more of the pie, having to settle for only 75 or 70 percent? Oh my God, it's like the end of the world." But as white people lose their dominant status, the meaning of whiteness in America will have to change significantly.

http://www.vice.com/read/white-people-told-me-why-they-feel-they-oppressed-456