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I find it difficult to believe that people can lack that level of self-awareness. It has to be something more.I don't tend to look at it as that "deep" for lack of a better term.
There's been an intersectional hierarchy established, and decisions are made based on that.
It's the same reason why white people are expected to get shamed and give a graveling apology for a faux pas that happened 10 years ago (based on current cultural standards) and other groups of are given a pass.
One glaring example that always sticks in my mind...
When Bill Maher cracked a joke about being a "House N-", and the following week, he had the rapper Ice Cube on his show, and he told Bill that he needed to be educated, and that it's never okay to say that word, even in the context of an ironic joke, etc... Meanwhile, Ice was on there to promote the 25 year anniversary re-release of the NWA album (which is ironic enough on its own), which featured the lyrics of "The Cop's all on my ----, he must be a F or something" (F referring to a derogatory term for gay people), and was applauded for "speaking truth to power" by the liberal publications for it. ....until Ice revealed that he was vaccine skeptic and did an interview for Tucker's podcast, and then they turned on him for other reasons.
That type of lack of self-awareness and intentional blind spots, followed to its logical conclusion, results in a society where someone will get lambasted for saying something like "I feel like men should be the head of the household" (based on a conservative Christian interpretation), while simultaneously defending the ideology that's hands-down, bar-none, no close second, the worst terms of treatment of women, simply because the ideology is mostly comprised of people who have a little more skin pigment.
And a lot of these people are scholars and grown adults. Their fantasies can be kept to themselves, but when they make real societal changes, based on their fantasies, it needs to be brought up.
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