# Most oppressed people in the world?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-oppressed-people-in-the-world/206794>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 11, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-oppressed-people-in-the-world/206794 "2003-10-11T03:28:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-oppressed-people-in-the-world/206794/81 "2003-10-18T00:22:55Z")

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> \*Originally posted by istara \*  
> \*\*Youth aren’t really comparable with peoples and nations of the world, because membership is temporary. You don’t stay “youth” for ever.
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> Given that we have all been “youth”, the fact that there are still laws to protect and nurture “youth” - including such things as education, not being allowed to drink and smoke at the age of seven, etc etc etc - suggests that the situation of “youth” is not really an oppressive one.\*\*

Are you suggesting that poor treatment doesn’t count as “oppression” if it’s only temporary, or if everyone has to go through it at some point?

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**Author:** ![\_possum\_stalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b77776/32.png) [@\_possum\_stalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_possum_stalker)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-oppressed-people-in-the-world/206794/82 "2003-10-23T14:10:04Z")

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Wow, that’s a lot of balloon juice up there, kids.

Anyway, the Congo sounds very, very bad. some serious genocide is going on over there. Too bad the international community doesn’t seem to give a shit.

[http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/1561.cfm](http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/1561.cfm)

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**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-oppressed-people-in-the-world/206794/83 "2003-10-28T16:24:17Z")

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union and China moving slowly towards a more capitalist state…

It would either be people in African nations ruled by tribal war lords, with AIDs, hunger etc…or Middle East nations where  
Women are more or less second class citizens…

The US should not open more war fronts than its capable of supporting…we will probably only go after nations perceived as  
A threat…like North Korea etc…I doubt we are interested in tribal Africa etc.

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**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-oppressed-people-in-the-world/206794/84 "2003-10-28T18:00:58Z")

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Wow **dogface** , at least put forth a better argument than an inferred strawman. Heck, even your strawman is so weak that you have to infer opinions from the nameless faceless masses.

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