Faux Oppression

 

Moving to a new home has brought me to the growing revelation, after just a few days, of how sordid and constrained my previous situation had been. How did I stand it?

Leading to the broader insight: people can get used to anything. Like the proverbial frog put in water and the heat gradually turned up.

For this reason, you simply will not hear complaints from the currently oppressed. If you hear complaints, it means one of two things: either you are hearing from the previously oppressed, but not oppressed now, about what used to be their situation; or else you are hearing from the habitually relatively privileged, not getting what they have come to expect.

The former seems to be the case of blacks in America; they are far more vocally irate and discontented now than they were, say, in the 1940s, or the 1960s, when they had good reason to be irate and discontented. Now they are systemically favoured, with “affirmative action.”

The latter is the case of feminists. Girls are generally raised as princesses, spoiled and indulged. Boys are treated more severely. Any attractive woman continues to be indulged in adulthood; ugly women are more likely to become feminists. And then, in the 1960s, something changed. Technological improvements in the home made it possible, for the first time, for men to live comfortably as bachelors. Suddenly women could not count so automatically on the deference to which they were accustomed, and which they expected from observing their mothers and fathers. Therefore the big trouble began.

Onde will note, however, that when women, now relatively obsolete in their traditional role, move into the male workforce, they always still demand special deference. They must be accommodated.

Indians, Canada’s “First Nations,” contrary to the constant claim, have always objectively been treated with deference and special consideration by the rest of society. This has not been good for their long term interests—just as it is not in their interest to spoil a child. Worse, Indian children are often raised without a father in the home, which usually means, without discipline. Therefore, like a pet that is taught to beg, they are always at the table looking woeful. They deserve whatever is on your plate, and are not yet getting it.

In the meantime, by appeasing these inappropriate and unreasonable demands, we are all able to comfortably continue to ignore the oppressed, indeed to comfortably oppress and scapegoat them: children, the young, the “mentally ill.” Working class white men: “rednecks,” “hillbillies.”

And so spins the world.