Those claims seem to me very different from -- and compatible with the negation of -- your earlier statement that it's wrong to consider "men" and "white people

Those claims seem to me very different from -- and compatible with the negation of -- your earlier statement that it's wrong to consider "men" and "white people" dominant groups in society. Since pretty much any claim about how these things are in the real world is liable to be controversial, here's a toy example to illustrate. Imagine a world in which (1) hundreds of years ago it became, never mind why, very widely believed that men are better and cleverer and harder-working than women, (2) such beliefs are extremely resistant to change regardless of empirical evidence, and (3) as a result of the persistence of that belief, men are consistently given better jobs, paid more, regarded as more trustworthy, etc., etc., etc., than women. But, as in our world, great power and great wealth are rare, and most people whether male or female don't have them. In that world, the vast majority of men don't have great power or great wealth, and any oppressing that's going on is being done by everyone collectively; but, in that world, men are by any reasonable definition a dominant group: they are greatly overrepresented (relative to their numbers in society as a whole) among the powerful, the rich, the high-status. So, let's return to geofft's question. Everything in your list could be true without making it false that men and white people are dominant groups in American society. Do you, in addition to holding the positions in your list, further believe that they are not dominant groups? What would be your estimate for the proportion of men in the following groups in the US: (1) people with an annual income of $250k or more, (2) holders of national-level political office, (3) people with "executive" in their job title, (4) owners of businesses, (5) judges, (6) generals, (7) (full) professors, (8) religious ministers? What about the proportion of white people? I'll make my prediction: in all those groups, the fraction of both men and white people will be greater than their fraction in the population at large; in several of those groups, much greater. Do you disagree? If so, let's check. If not, why don't you think this makes men and white people "dominant groups"? (Note that "dominant" is not the same as "oppressive".)