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You actually have a good point. Racism, sexism, et al have never been about race or sex or what have you, it has always been about power. The radical left see
by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
You actually have a good point.
Racism, sexism, et al have never been about race or sex or what have you, it has always been about power.
The radical left sees the longstanding paradigm (male, white, straight, in that order) as having committed such wrong in the past that they are "unworthy" of their power, and even equality (forget the science and philosophy, they're bad because of colonialism/slavery/sexism/genocide/name it)
Some men (and some white women) are furious about their eroding privilege, as if they were randomly given front-of-the-line passes at Disneyworld, then arriving to find out that their passes have been disabled or given to people that don't resemble them.
Others see a pendulum of history favoring the paradigm shifting too quickly and lending opportunity to those who hate straight white men, and do not have to be racists or supremacists to acknowledge the danger of overreaction.
Overreaction can be dangerous and chilling to real discussion. Just look at the folks who downvoted you without comment, and we are left to believe that they merely disagree with you.
- gjulianm 11y agoI don't think the downvotes are trying to mask real discussion. OP does not create real discussion, just a paranoia without arguments: "this is caused by X", being X the left (in this case), but it could have been the right, the media or whatever and I think it would have been downvoted equally. And, by the way, I don't think calling the police when seeing these kind of fliers is an overreaction. Yes, it's just a piece of paper, but the people who print those pieces of paper tend to be, let's say, very non-friendly if you are a minority (black, homosexual,...), sometimes getting to the point of beating them.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoRight. I meant overreaction on the part of having fliers printed. Not the calling the police part. It was a security breach after all.
- zerohm 11y agoI think he got down voted because SJW is a dismissive and meaningless trope. It's like Hipster, except not fun.
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