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newtboyI agree. When racism is so institutionalized it may require a racist response to get to equality. I just think we need to be honest about it so, when equality is neared, we can end ALL institutional racism.
To be clear, I identified as a feminist for around 25 years before realizing how the group as a whole didn't want fairness and equality because they wouldn't ever address an inequality they benefit from. Why would I work against my own interests for a group that never has my interests or well being, or even fairness and equality as a goal?
I think it's an ugly necessity.
Equality isn't about treating everybody the same. I mean, I wish we could do that, but then I wish people wouldn't decide if they are going to hire somebody from their very first glance. But that's what we do. We do nothing and we simply allow our unconscious bias to rule our decision making which, in most cases, would be great for somebody like me.
I mean, I don't like it. I can understand entirely why people feel they have been cheated when somebody gets a job or promotion ahead of them just for the sake of ticking a diversity checkbox. Maybe you're right, maybe it is just adding energy to that pendulum, but then a pendulum without resistance swings forever. I hope conscious decisions to readdress imbalanced caused by unconscious bias works more as a dampening effect, as resistance.
Back to semantics. Like the woman in the video, I probably had quite a knee-jerk response to men's rights. Sometimes probably warranted, but then some feminists have some pretty dumb things to say as well. Anyway, the person that helped changed by mind about it was a woman and a feminist. Don't define a group by it's most extreme edges because I think it just leads you to make uncharitable judgements about people that identify as part of that group before you've even really listened to them.
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enochi think you are onto something there about the reasons for the political extremes gaining traction.
people are far more isolated in today's world,which ironic considering how open everything is.
but now they have the option to:ignore,block or defriend.
creating a nice,warm and comfy bubble in which to reside in and never have to deal with those who may disagree,criticize or challenge anything in their pretty little head.
during the presidential election i had liberals defriend me because i was critical of hillary.
oh they LOVED me when i was telling them that sanders was going be exposed to the "ron paul" treatment.the fact that the primary was obviously rigged made no difference to them.
but when i continued to be critical of their golden child?
misogynist traitor (actual quote).
the trump supporters adored me when i was breaking down the reasons why some people may vote for trump,and that people should not simply dismiss trump out of hand.
my liberal friends despised me for this,thinking that somehow me pointing to the political climate of my country translated to support for trump.
but i was just a cis gender white privileged male who did not deserve and opinion (another actual quote).
and those trump supporters turned on me in an instant when i began pointing out the more disturbing aspects of trump,his history and politics.oh..they didn't like that.
fucking commie fucking libtard.i thought you were on "our" side! (another quote).
all in all...over 400 people,from both sides of the political spectrum,called me some impressive names..and defriended me.
all because what i was posting conflicted or challenged their cult of personality,which they had attached their ideology.
so now they all sit in their little circles and smell each others farts and call them good and righteous.
i think charlottesville,virginia,seattle are just the beginning.....i fear things are going to get much MUCH worse.
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newtboyI totally agree, it would be poetic justice for the immigrant haters to have to live without them...I just don't want to have to do it too just because I'm a total honkey.
Can't we just offer them a white supremacist only state and have them all move there, then close the borders and build that wall? ;-)
Perhaps I am being obtuse but I feel that one of us, or perhaps both of us, are not understanding the other.
A parallel: After Brexit there was some rather ugly anti-immigrant stuff flying around. "Polish vermin" etc. I did, in my bitterness, fantasise about a UK without immigrants because it would be such deliciously ironic justice. I mean, in reality I'd have my Polish friends and a country that actually functions rather than "I told you sos" and packing bags... but still, sometimes I do wish lessons would be learned the only way some will ever learn them.
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