Responses to plundering, pillaging, slavery and oppression

Ways of thinking and ways of doing things that are used to excuse, camouflage and otherwise facilitate plundering, pillaging, slavery and oppression, might not be well suited for responding to them. They might even be self-defeating.

For example, thinking and talking about oppression and what to do about it, using the exact same race classification system that is being used to excuse and camouflage it, with all the fire and smoke and red herrings that come with it, drawing the exact same lines, might do more to help perpetuate it than to help stop it.

I see the classification system itself, with its effects on people's ideas and feelings towards each other, and on their reactions to other people's adversities, as part of what helps perpetuate the oppression. I see much better ways to think and talk about oppression and what to do about it, without using that classification system.