re: #568 dog philosopher

it is not about getting my oppressors to humanize me

i wonder who she thinks is ‘oppressing’ her and how

seems to me she is a pretty privileged person who is unlikely to have ever experienced anything any reasonable person would consider ‘oppression’

I fess up. It’s me.

I oppress everyone. In reality, I’m The Man.

Or so I was told many years ago, though in a decidedly humorous way. In the late 90s, I was briefly in a training class in Los Angeles, and to be brutally blunt, I was the only person of the Caucasian persuasion there; the rest of my classmates were African-American. The trainer said something about “….how The Man is keeping you down”, and of course, everyone promptly looked at me.

I responded the only way I could - I looked at the trainer, and said, “Well that’s just great; now you’ve blown my cover!” That got everyone laughing, including the trainer. And it made me some friends as well.