he's saying that it sounds a bit like when western u.s. men chide western feminists: "oh, shut up. At least you're not wearing burkas and you can drive."
It creates a hiearchy of who is more oppressed because, underlying most western marxist and western marxish politics, there's the endless search for the subject of history - the "most oppressed" class which is supposed to truly understand how to struggle against capitalism and with whom we must align ourselves.
so, when you're in the grip of such thinking -- which some people (perhaps many?) do find very persuasive and defensible -- you just tend to think that political struggle in the u.s. is a total waste of time because it is over silly and unimportant things considering that people are way more oppressedor (tm) everywhere else.
shag
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