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Only from a 4th wave feminist lens which is unhelpful to male only issues. When Obama tried creating "My Brothers Keeper" program to help struggling AA boys, w

Only from a 4th wave feminist lens which is unhelpful to male only issues. When Obama tried creating "My Brothers Keeper" program to help struggling AA boys, who got it shut down? Certainly wasn't the right wing.

dragonwriter 3y ago
> When Obama tried creating “My Brothers Keeper” program to help struggling AA boys, who got it shut down? He didn’t try, he succeeded in 2014, and it remained in place as long as he was President, then it stopped being an Administration priority under Donald Trump and went away in 2017 (though the Obama Foundation then launched a similarly named grant program with similar purpose in 2018 which is still active.) > Certainly wasn’t the right wing. Except it absolutely was.
- Racing0461 3y ago
  I meant the original version.
BryantD 3y ago
Can you unpack this a bit? My recollection is that the program was initiated in 2014, with substantial contributions from private organizations. It was further funded in 2015 with more private sector contributions. I believe it was shut down when Trump was inaugurated.
- Racing0461 3y ago
  Drawing a parallel between "left talking to boys" and "my brother's keeper being originally hyper-targeting AA boys in inner city areas but then being expanded to every group under the sun" calling out why its not effective. Through the 4th wave feminist lens, anything that helps men (or a subgroup of men) alone is by definition evil. Making it all inclusive kept the name only but it lost the ability to help those in need the most. This also ignores the 100s of other interest groups that target the other demographics. We can always make the claim that why artificially limit it to just that subgroup or why can't these specific group of men find help in the all inclusive programs we have already, but then we get back to where we started, that is "see we are talking to men". This is also an allagory at every other attempt of the left wing lens trying to help men. Society is very quick to shove in my face "black patient with black doctors and female patient with female doctors have better outcomes" but for some reason an issue faced by men needs to be watered down or not addressed completely.
  - jmye 3y ago
    > Through the 4th wave feminist lens, anything that helps men (or a subgroup of men) alone is by definition evil This is absolutely absurd nonsense. Good god.

dragonwriter 3y ago

> When Obama tried creating “My Brothers Keeper” program to help struggling AA boys, who got it shut down? He didn’t try, he succeeded in 2014, and it remained in place as long as he was President, then it stopped being an Administration priority under Donald Trump and went away in 2017 (though the Obama Foundation then launched a similarly named grant program with similar purpose in 2018 which is still active.) > Certainly wasn’t the right wing. Except it absolutely was.

Racing0461 3y ago
I meant the original version.

BryantD 3y ago

Can you unpack this a bit? My recollection is that the program was initiated in 2014, with substantial contributions from private organizations. It was further funded in 2015 with more private sector contributions. I believe it was shut down when Trump was inaugurated.

Racing0461 3y ago
Drawing a parallel between "left talking to boys" and "my brother's keeper being originally hyper-targeting AA boys in inner city areas but then being expanded to every group under the sun" calling out why its not effective. Through the 4th wave feminist lens, anything that helps men (or a subgroup of men) alone is by definition evil. Making it all inclusive kept the name only but it lost the ability to help those in need the most. This also ignores the 100s of other interest groups that target the other demographics. We can always make the claim that why artificially limit it to just that subgroup or why can't these specific group of men find help in the all inclusive programs we have already, but then we get back to where we started, that is "see we are talking to men". This is also an allagory at every other attempt of the left wing lens trying to help men. Society is very quick to shove in my face "black patient with black doctors and female patient with female doctors have better outcomes" but for some reason an issue faced by men needs to be watered down or not addressed completely.
- jmye 3y ago
  > Through the 4th wave feminist lens, anything that helps men (or a subgroup of men) alone is by definition evil This is absolutely absurd nonsense. Good god.