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It seems you are letting your (justified) anger at the situation to cloud your judgement so much so that you fail to see the irony of how similar your generaliz
by Jun8 11y ago
It seems you are letting your (justified) anger at the situation to cloud your judgement so much so that you fail to see the irony of how similar your generalization rhetoric is to those used in environments you abhor. How is your detrimental usage of terms like "frat boy" and "dude" different from, e.g. people who observe a few women who are not interested/good at coding and declare "Women can't code"? Or when someone declares "Racial Persecution Really Isn't The Problem In Baltimore, it's "Personal Behavior" (http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/04/28/bill-oreilly-racial-persecution-really-isnt-the/203457 http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/04/28/bill-oreilly-racial...)?
I came across poignant reminder of this irony while catching up with news about university protests over the weekend: After being intimidated and physically assaulted by protesters while trying to take photos in a public space in Missouri U., the journalism student Tim Tai said "He was in a similar situation when covering last year's protests in Ferguson, ... — except 'it was the police doing it then.'" (http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-missouri-protest-camp-20151109-story.html http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-missouri-protest-camp-20...)
We should not appropriate the tactics of those we oppose.
- solipsism 11y agoIt's funny you mention the Missouri U Tim Tai incident. That entire debacle is a good lesson for us progressives in the dangers of ultra- political correctness and knee-jerk sensitivity. And that's what I thought of when I read your comment about detrimental usage of terms like "frat boy" and "dude". "Frat boy" and "dude" are off-limits now?