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Yep. This is called "intersectionality". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality

• runarberg 13y ago
  Sometimes I hear animal right activists argue that there is a direct link between animal oppression and minority oppression. I think they might not be far off. If you have the heart to oppress non-human animals, what's stopping you from oppressing the homeless, and if you have the hart to oppress the homeless, why do immigrants deserve your respect? why do the gays, why do women? I hadn't heard about intersectionality before, but knowing how dynamic the societal hierarchy is, and knowing that individuals are often times worse oppressors then governments, it makes sense that people would cast their oppression in various ways down the hierarchy.
  • rmc 13y ago
    > Sometimes I hear animal right activists... Yep, some vegetarians claim that people who claim to be feminist should be vegetarian. Me? I'm a speciesist. > it makes sense that people would cast their oppression in various ways down the hierarchy. It's not always linear. A black man might be margalized in the work place (or the criminal justice system), but in a position of power at home over his wife, but if he is in prison, he might be in a position of power. "It's complicated" is a term commonly used by people within the social justice scene. And just because there are loads of systematice oppressions doesn't mean we can't fight them all and try to end them all. Classism and sexism and homophobia and ... are all wrong.