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How would, say, black people no longer being stopped by the police more, or women being equally considered for job applications, ever even remotely affect a white man (for example)? There would be zero impact on their life in any way that could be called 'oppression' at all.
Both your examples are roughly zero-sum situations. More people being more fairly considered for job applications will mean currently-privileged people will have worse odds of getting a job, as there is no correlated increase in total jobs available. And people being less likely to be stopped will, at least for some crimes or infractions, lead to more of others than before being stopped in order to meet quotas.
The latter is obviously fixable in large part by ending quotas (which at least is mostly relevant just for traffic laws rn afaik), and isn't a huge deal even currently anyways. But the former is part and parcel of any job market. It's an understandable concern, even though it should be selflessly accepted as a privilege to be lost.
Comment by fish993 at 21/01/2025 at 13:31 UTC
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Both your examples are roughly zero-sum situations
Well, no, not really. There are plenty of other reasons that it would be easier or harder to find a job at any given time, a particular white man is never going to have all the knowledge of the situation to know that women are being discriminated against less and that *that* specifically is why he can't find a job. Finding it harder to get a job might feel like oppression (in a roundabout way) but there's no reason for him to link that to 'equality'.
If being stopped by the police is only an issue because of ridiculous quotas then that's not even a relevant issue to this.