Since it’s come up lately: In my experience, it can be helpful to highlight similarities in the argumentation/justification used to prop up systems of oppression, but not so helpful to compare the nature of that oppression. For example...
..I think it can be useful to highlight how some of the same passages of Scripture (NT household codes) that are used to support patriarchy were also use to support slavery. But I would very be wary of comparing the oppression of American chattel slavery with complementarianism.
*be very wary* (although “very be wary” is a fun thing we could start saying).
Bette Midler was right to point out how the patriarchal silencing we witnessed this week is part of a broader system of oppression. But white folks especially should avoid comparisons to slavery/Jim Crow/lynching/ etc. Because nothing compares.
