Gregg,

I'm all for heterodoxy. It's very much needed. And nothing wrong with different political viewpoints. But I was criticizing Brooke's minimization of oppression, and his whole strawman that identifying oppression necessarily means that one's "goodness is secure", that one has "virtue without obligation", and that "nothing is one's fault". (Just because someone is "oppressed" doesn't mean they can't be a bad, non-virtuous person who has a lot of things happen to them that is their fault.)

I found it to be a very self-serving article by a neoliberal, white male-privileged media elitist who down-played neo-liberalism, white male privilege, and media elitism and the contributions these things make to the very systemic and institutional oppression that he's minimizing. 

Indeed, it's ironic that he was engaging in a "tribalism" of his own by so easily criticizing the "oppressed herd" without considering the possibility that he himself could be part of the "oppressor herd".

~ Jason