https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/ Arthur D. Hlavaty - Dreamwidth Studios Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:36:20 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios supergee personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/109189/156313 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/ 100 75 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/1342346.html Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:36:20 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/1342346.html In 1937 Bertrand Russell wrote an essay entitled "The Superior Virtue of the Oppressed," in which he attacked the sentimental assumption of the title, pointing out that while the oppressed are no worse than we are, they are also no better, and given the opportunity, would act as badly we have. Since then, Robert Heinlein has dramatized the idea (the three-monkey parable in <i>Stranger in a Strange Land</i>), and the State of Israel has given us an object lesson. At a more trivial level, the whole Fake Geek Girl thing strikes me as a marvelous horrible example of learning the wrong lesson from oppression.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=1342346" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/1342346.html oppression public 1 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/1101922.html Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:33:57 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/1101922.html Government <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/how-washington-abandoned-americas-unpaid-interns/281125/">interns</a><br /><br />Thanx to <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://twistedchick.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://twistedchick.dreamwidth.org/'><b>twistedchick</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=1101922" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/1101922.html oppression public 0 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/259587.html Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:51:45 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/259587.html <a href="http://www.bilerico.com/2010/04/sonoma_county_ca_separates_elderly_gay_couple_and.php">Protected from abominations of Sodom or something</a><br /><br />Thanx to <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://frostfox.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://frostfox.livejournal.com/'><b>frostfox</b></a></span> et al.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=259587" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/259587.html oppression public 1