o/t best comment from a gay bloke ever.....

[ragingpup]

Who is saying that these groups of people are 'oppressed'?? IBS implied that they were oppressed but that they were trumped by the poor!?!

But otherwise, who is saying that these groups are oppressed? It sounds a bit like, for some reason, this argument proposition is being forced into the thread. Why?

[the_idiotb_stardson]

Poor gay, black, Jewish female people are oppressed because they are poor not because of their other characteristics and therefore they fall within the group IBS is concerned with.
Oppression is not an essential characteristic of any of the other groups if they are not also poor.
In the UK in what sense are the following in any way "oppressed"? Ruth Davidson, Stephen Fry, Matthew Parris, Ian McKellen (gay), Lenny Henry, Idris Elba, Naomi Campbell, Paul Bouteng, Trevor Phillips (black), Ralph and David Gold, Jack Cohen, Sir Charles Clore, Baron Danny Finkelstein OBE (Jews).
So the essential component of oppression in modern Britain is poverty and arguably disability. Being gay, black, Jewish or female is totally irrelevant.

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Post of the year this.

The billionaires club will be laughing their heads off now a once threatening, revolutionary socialist movement which was very dangerous to their interests, have now been reduced to waving rainbow flags

The Socialists should get back on message.....and maybe I will re-join the movement.

[monty_rhodes]

Who is saying that these groups of people are 'oppressed'?? IBS implied that they were oppressed but that they were trumped by the poor!?!

But otherwise, who is saying that these groups are oppressed? It sounds a bit like, for some reason, this argument proposition is being forced into the thread. Why?

You would be better off reading a thread before starting an argument. Patty said exactly that in his first post on the thread above. Before that no one had mention blacks, Jews or women. I then responded saying that imo Patty was wrong and members of these groups were not necessarily oppressed.

[ragingpup]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Post of the year this.

The billionaires club will be laughing their heads off now a once threatening, revolutionary socialist movement which was very dangerous to their interests, have now been reduced to waving rainbow flags

The Socialists should get back on message.....and maybe I will re-join the movement.

But, as I alluded to above - where are these socialists who are waving rainbow flags?? You're the only one on here, and in many other posts, that keep mentioning it!

[ragingpup]

You would be better off reading a thread before starting an argument. Patty said exactly that in his first post on the thread above. Before that no one had mention blacks, Jews or women. I then responded saying that imo Patty was wrong and members of these groups were not necessarily oppressed.

My reading of Patty's post was that he was taking the piss out of you and not making any pro-faction argument! Might be wrong but that's how it appeared. He doesn't strike me as a rainbow flag waving type!

[BigLadonOS]

Up until reading this I always thought the best comment from a gay bloke ever was from a mate of mine who is gay and he said "I'm a postman not a postbox"

[monty_rhodes]

My reading of Patty's post was that he was taking the piss out of you and not making any pro-faction argument! Might be wrong but that's how it appeared. He doesn't strike me as a rainbow flag waving type!

I'm sorry but you really are a trouble causing idiot. How could Patty's post be interpreted as taking the piss out of me as my sole contribution up to that point was to tell IBS to grow up. Your "reading" of everything on this MB is always, always coloured by who has posted it; you're never impartial, never honest and never objective.

[Pattylallacks2]

Patty, why do you always have to be so insulting? Instead of making ridiculous assumptions about me you might simply address the point: do you consider the people mentioned in my list as "oppressed"? If so why? If they aren't oppressed then surely this is evidence that there being black, gay, Jewish or female is irrelevan in this respect?

Monty, please explain to me what is insulting about my post.

[monty_rhodes]

Monty, please explain to me what is insulting about my post.

The bracketted "though possibly disabled" immediately after female was clearly intended as an insult. How can you know I'm none of the other things and yet suggest I might be disabled? You were trying to be clever in my view and it was clearly intended to demean me - so therefore insulting.

[millmoormagic]

Monty's a bit touchy today....