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I don't see how people think that it isn't dangerous. Ezra Klein wrote the following on Vox. > A few years ago, it became popular on feminist Twitter to tweet

I don't see how people think that it isn't dangerous. Ezra Klein wrote the following on Vox. > A few years ago, it became popular on feminist Twitter to tweet about the awful effects of patriarchal culture and attach the line #KillAllMen. This became popular enough that a bunch of people I know and hang out with and even love began using it in casual conversation. > And you know what? I didn’t like it. It made me feel defensive. It still makes me feel defensive. I’m a man, and I recoil hearing people I care about say all men should be killed. > But I also knew that wasn’t what they were saying. They didn’t want me put to death. They didn’t want any men put to death. They didn’t hate me, and they didn’t hate men. “#KillAllMen” Ezra admits that viscerally it didn't sit right and it took some understanding to come to the conclusion that what was being said wasn't what was actually meant. This is the exact same argument people like Peter Thiel make, "take Trump seriously not literally". The idea that people have to read through the lines of hyperbolic and aggressive speech and understand the intentions and history is absurd. It just seems obvious that incendiary and zero sum language is going to push people into more extreme (and authoritarian) politics.

DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago
Good. Then the same applies to someone saying #KillAllWomen. We either judge everybody by the same standard, or not at all. Everything else is sexist (or racist, in the case of race, and so on). By the way, personally I don't care about somebody saying "KillAllX" regardless of who that X is, when it's used in hyperbole. The problem is that, with some people, context gets disregarded. "KillAllMen" doesn't really mean actually killing them, but if someone said "KillAllWomen" all of twitter would be arguing that they totally definitely absolutely one hundred percent meant it literally and should be imprisoned.
AnimalMuppet 6y ago
> The idea that people have to read through the lines of hyperbolic and aggressive speech and understand the intentions and history is absurd. The idea that they should is absurd; the idea that they will (or that they all will) is simply false. If you say "kill all men", some people (both men and women) will take you at face value. Even worse: A small minority of those why say it will genuinely mean it.

DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago

Good. Then the same applies to someone saying #KillAllWomen. We either judge everybody by the same standard, or not at all. Everything else is sexist (or racist, in the case of race, and so on). By the way, personally I don't care about somebody saying "KillAllX" regardless of who that X is, when it's used in hyperbole. The problem is that, with some people, context gets disregarded. "KillAllMen" doesn't really mean actually killing them, but if someone said "KillAllWomen" all of twitter would be arguing that they totally definitely absolutely one hundred percent meant it literally and should be imprisoned.

AnimalMuppet 6y ago

> The idea that people have to read through the lines of hyperbolic and aggressive speech and understand the intentions and history is absurd. The idea that they should is absurd; the idea that they will (or that they all will) is simply false. If you say "kill all men", some people (both men and women) will take you at face value. Even worse: A small minority of those why say it will genuinely mean it.