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Viva La Socialist Revolution
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You do realize that people in comment sections and stuff are more likely to be extreme because they tend to be more outspoken, right? There are plenty of feminists like myself who aren't extreme, totally in-your-face, or otherwise unduly obnoxious/jerk-y.From talking to feminists, from reading their comment sections. From hearing testimony from various ex-feminists. From hearing why white supremacists hate black people and etc and noticing the very similar mindsets they have for why many feminists try to spread fear about men. That the current black activist seem to be so infused with feminism. Hearing black men who are anti-feminists speak about how feminism borrows many of the same toxic attitudes that racists do.
My sister is very into third-wave feminism and while I think she can be a bit too extreme at times, she's mostly pretty down to Earth about it. She's more about statistics and science than screaming at random men about oppression.
White man here. I've literally never been demonized for my gender or race, unless you count cases where they were using my gender to try to demonize supposedly unmanly behavior (like saying that I'm a "sissy" for liking strawberry daiquiris).I'm certainly not excusing the men who are joining or flirting with neo-Nazism but I just fail to see how this result isn't going to happen. White men have feelings too, we don't like being demonized anymore than anyone else.
The fact is, treating men and women as equals, and people of all races as equals, does not hurt white men. It just means that we'll have more non-white, non-male presidents. (Women make up 50% of the US population and still manage to have never been elected president. But of course society doesn't have any gender discrimination at all!)
If the average complain-y white dude experienced a tenth of what the average black person experiences, as far as discrimination and prejudice and stuff goes, they would probably start crying or something. Is it bad to call them crybabies?
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