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Oppressed-A-Thon Defined--Or The Olympics For Historically Screwed-Over People

26 Mar 2008 01:15 pm

So I used the term "Oppressed-A-Thon" in another post and I thought I should define it. I got the idea from this brilliant entry.

Oppressed-A-Thon--An unintentionally amusing pastime, in which flummoxed pundits unable to make heads or tails out of actual human beings, engage in a dubious contest to prove that said human beings' respective group is more doomed, victimized, and otherwise shat-upon than all other doomed, victimized and presumably shat-upon groups.

"Misoginy is the last acceptable prejudice"--Katha Pollit

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is."--Geraldine Ferraro

"Hillary ain't never been called a nigger."--Rev. Jeremiah Wright

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