I'm sorry if this is a rude request, but I'm very new to the LW commenting process, so if anyone knows why my comments here were downvoted, I'd really appreciate it if that person would tell me, so I can improve my future participation on this site.

Thanks in advance!

I suppose there isn't really a standard progressive view, but I attend Young Democrats meetings, my school voted with something like a ⅔ majority for Obama in the last mock election, and I read newspapers and magazines that target a progressive audience, so I encounter a lot of progressive viewpoints.

I thought that the "tools of oppression and domination" was a reference to how stereotypes are used, not how they are formed. I don't really picture a bunch of people in positions of power deciding that the best method to oppress people was to assume insulting things about them, instead of, say, passing harmful legislation, so I assumed that other progressives would agree with me on that point.

Also, I wanted to discuss stereotype origins without using phrasing that made the originators of those stereotypes look immoral, because I thought that doing so would distract for advancedatheist from the point I was trying to make, so I shied away from that explanation.