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>First off, something can be bad for simply hurting all men. You don't have to resort to a racial analysis. But that's the thing-- I'm not "resorting" to that
by tsol 4y ago
>First off, something can be bad for simply hurting all men. You don't have to resort to a racial analysis.
But that's the thing-- I'm not "resorting" to that argument. I'm a PoC and I really think that really matters. But people handwave that away every time. Because it's not interesting to the majority of people, because the majority of people don't really care about these things.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoI think people (like me) react because they feel it is dismissive of the harm done to non-POC people. It is not "problematic because minorities are a subset of men". It already was problematic for hurting men. Your statement implies that it would not be a problem if it were just non POC being hurt. To take a hyperbolic example, If someone shoots up a school, we don't say it is bad because there were children of color in it. It is bad whomever is hurt. It might also hurt POC, and it might especially hurt POC, but it was always bad.