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I'm not sure things here haven't always been this chaotic, though. There has been some culture war issue or another going on for as long as I can remember. Oppression/marginalization is also a funny thing, because it doesn't happen to every member of a group equally, and it's hard to empathize with something outside our lived experiences.

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~nargran wrote (thread):

> it doesn't happen to every member of a group equally

Not only that, but most of those groups are categories which maybe more or less hold inside the US, but often not outside. Most people from Spain, a rich european country, are in a quite different situation from most people in Honduras. Even taking belonging to one of those countries overgeneralizes, but surely way less than just the language.

I understand it makes way more sense when applied to the average spanish speaker in the US, but many in the US don't seem aware of it's limitations, and "spanish as a mother tongue == oppressed" seems like a fact to them.

To summarize, beyond specifics, what is funny is that thinking "every person from group X is Y", which is the definition of prejudice itself, is seen often there as being... against prejudice. As long as you get the right X and Y.

Prejudice sadly exists everywhere in the world, but only in the US is a subset of prejudices seen as something against prejudice.