So who is tomorrow's cutting edge oppressed peoples?

[Hygro]

Like, it was cutting-edge to be black in the 1960s during the civil rights movement, or women during one of the few women's movements, or gay in the past couple of decades (particularly these days)... I'm trying to think of who in America is part of a cohesive, inclusive subculture that is not accepted by the mainstream, and hasn't gotten their own civil rights train out of the station.

I'll tell you guys why later. First, we brainstorm!

 

[Murky]

Atheist. It is difficult for people to accept those who live outside the norm.

 

[JollyRoger]

War on Christmas refugees.

 

[Masquerouge]

I second atheists.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Paedophiles.

 

[Civrules]

I am an atheist.

I don't need anyone to tell me how to live my life, or what to believe.

But other than that, I'm a normal person. Really! I eat, sleep, etc...

How come the ignorant people are never the opprsessed ones? Are people too afraid to hurt others' feelings and be honest with them? Or is too much knowledge generally a bad thing?

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Pedophiles and paediatricians. Socialists, since rightwingers keep confusing "socialism" with "communism" with "the Soviet disaster". The homeless. Serious intellectuals. Most seriously, hacktivists, like the DeCSS gang, not accepted by the mainstream including the DMCA.

 

[Masquerouge]

Paedophiles.

And do you mean paedophiles in the strict sense of the term, or just people sleeping with pubere teens?

 

[downtown]

Immigrants. In particular, those of Hispanic Origin.

 

[Neomega]

people with visible tattoos and piercings

women who have at one time in their life appeared in porn

 

[ShannonCT]

Test tube babies and clones.

 

[Hygro]

These are great, keep em coming

 

[JollyRoger]

people with visible tattoos and piercings

women who have at one time in their life appeared in porn

Which, unfortunately, is becoming an overlapping category.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Which, unfortunately, is becoming an overlapping category.

Hey, thanks for the visualization, man.

After people get tired of gays, it will probably be atheists, they seem to by whining more and more about "In God We Trust" and "one nation under God" and other such nonsense more and more lately.

 

[Rossiya]

Like, it was cutting-edge to be black in the 1960s during the civil rights movement, or women during one of the few women's movements, or gay in the past couple of decades (particularly these days)... I'm trying to think of who in America is part of a cohesive, inclusive subculture that is not accepted by the mainstream, and hasn't gotten their own civil rights train out of the station.

I'll tell you guys why later. First, we brainstorm!

White people, definitely.

 

[Technocactus]

I think people hwo are the product of genetics, like test tube babies.

 

[Urederra]

VFPs

Spoiler :

Very Fat People

and PURSAs

Spoiler :

People Using Really Stupid Acronyms

 

[The Last Conformist]

And do you mean paedophiles in the strict sense of the term, or just people sleeping with pubere teens?

I always use the term in the strict sense, but I suppose some ephebophiles would join their cause. Others would keep the hell away on the logic that to get to screw teens legally they need to break the equation doing 17yo's = paedophilia in the public mind.

 

[Communisto]

white males... and im acutally serious

 

[Tee Kay]

Oppressors (demanding the rights to oppress people freely)