Stole this from a political poll, can't remember which one

You mean do oppressed peoples have the right to fight back to an oppressive government? Yes, they do.

Another thing to note, it really depends on how you define oppression and oppressed people. How are they oppressed?

For an example: by a government that systematically enacts policies to systematically exterminate them.

The government of the United States of America is currently engaged in a genocidal war against an entire race: the American Indians. They were systematically exterminated for nothing other than being American Indians. It's happening right now, and it's All Because the Government Sees Them As Lesser than Nothing.

Same goes for systemic racism against black people. I mean, sure, people are racist assholes regardless of the environment, but there's enough proof of it being a problem that the government should do something about it. That's all the more reason to pass stricter laws! But the laws have loopholes.


This brings out the issue of police brutality. Police are too quick to use lethal force. The police have too much power.

Judges are to be given powers to investigate police misconduct, and fire or demote officers who ill act. Or just get rid of it. If the police want to behave like an occupying army, you push them back and let them know you ain't got shit to fucking with.

The point is, they need to be more efficient.

In contrast to that, it’s not "oppression" if people magnifying a small issue and using them to accomplish their own agendas.

Situations such as: Nobody bats an eye when a few terrorists blow up a building. Everyone is in an uproar when a single Native American woman is accidentally run over by a truck. It's just more convenient for everybody to be outraged by anything that happens to them, rather than taking personal responsibility for their own actions.

So, battling out systemic oppression is the way to go. However, in theory, yes. In practice, it's alot harder.

Well, yeah. If people can't fight back against oppression, then what can they really do at all? My personal opinion is that I don't agree with violence, but the world seems to eat it up, like it's an omelette for breakfast. And too many countries appear to utilise violence, despite it being wrong. Of course, if people are oppressed, then violence isn't really the outstanding issue, anyway, unless they are being violently oppressed.