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>Were I black or gay or trans or a woman and American reactionaries are threatened by me for existing, it is not a choice. Everyone else is at risk, but white
by navigatesol 7y ago
>Were I black or gay or trans or a woman and American reactionaries are threatened by me for existing, it is not a choice.
Everyone else is at risk, but white men are some homogeneous group that bands together to hold everyone else back. Do I have that right?
- eropple 7y agoNo, and your characterization reads as disingenuous. To remove any ambiguity: what I am saying is that straight white men are, in general, the beneficiaries of positive cultural assumptions in ways that women and blacks and LGBT folks are not, and those assumptions have ripple effects that cascade into significant social benefits. American reactionaries really fucking like those social benefits, are threatened by the prospect of losing them (and, when it comes to poorer reactionaries, are afraid of losing what little status they convey over, say, poor blacks), and will fight to protect them. "Rich reactionaries use poor black people to distract poor white people" is neither new nor controversial and pointing out that they do the same thing with women and LGBT folks--how do you think nonsense peddlers like Jordan Peterson and Stefan Bad History Molyneux get anywhere if not for this?--is not a stretch.