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It wasn’t just the Red Scare. Black people were cancelled by default. Jews were tolerated, at best, and quota’d out of leadership roles. Women were functionally
by naravara 5y ago
It wasn’t just the Red Scare. Black people were cancelled by default. Jews were tolerated, at best, and quota’d out of leadership roles. Women were functionally disallowed from being anywhere near whole classes of employment. Gay people were forced to hide and remain closeted to even be allowed in polite company.
Most of what right wingers complain about being “cancelled” for are perpetuating arguments to restore the bad old days where members of all those groups were treated as second or third class citizens. Can you blame them for occasionally being a little overexuberant in telling you to STFU?
- matheusmoreira 5y ago> Can you blame them for occasionally being a little overexuberant in telling you to STFU? Absolutely. If you claim the moral high ground, you cannot possibly expect to be taken seriously if you make the same mistakes as the people you are criticizing.
- naravara 5y agoIt’s not a “mistake.” It’s a power struggle and people just don’t like the shoe being on the other foot for a change.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoThat's fine. Struggling for power is absolutely okay. It is natural. Let's recognize it for what it is. What I don't accept is virtuous claims that people want equality. It was never about that. It's about increasing their own group's power and privileges.
- naravara 5y ago> It's about increasing their own group's power and privileges. How does an underpowered, underprivileged group achieve equality without doing this? What does "equality" even mean without those things?