One can really only laugh at the unstoppable juggernaut of snowballing rage, some of it justified, mostly not, caused by the media and establishment's desire to (for whatever reason), 'intersectionality' and all, turn women against men.
Even more ironic that rather than their fully clawed cats scratching at the, no doubt, expected, powerful WASP (e.g. Trump) target, it turns out that a lot of the abusers are the establishments darlings.
The author has very little sympathy for the way "metoo" has evolved, I understand that. But it seems like at the end she was ok with it being "laser focused on college educated white men" and not really ok with it being focused on "brown" men, for whatever reason. Then when Ansari gets character assassinated it's wrong, but if he'd been a white guy?
Well it’s likely racist to her to attack a brown man who didn’t deserve it, because they likely wouldn’t have attacked a white man. It also, according to the author, removes the intersectional portion of intersectional feminism... which would make sense if the act was racist.
As a brown man, I can say, I feel like a lot of white women now are on the attack and often attacking all men for equality. They should be attacking college educated white men, because brown men still make less, are incarcerated more, and have less access to resource than a white woman. It feels like they’re trying to win the oppression olympics while the rest of us are simply trying to eat and stay warm.
Should be attacking college educated white men? Really? Maybe they should be attacking brown men for their massively higher criminality rates -- shockingly high numbers of rapes, murders, and so on in their own countries, and significantly higher than whites when transplanted into white countries, even after multiple generations?
Of course you could move past the tribalism and live on your own merits, but you want to play the race victim card instead. Pathetic.
The irony is that the only difference between White Supremacy/Chauvinism and Intersectional Feminists/'White Privilege' is that the former is proud of its race/sex supposed superiority, while the latter accepts the formers superiority but complains about it.
It's time to move past tribalism, whether as an imagined superior, or as an imagined inferior victim, and rely on ones merits. Your decisions make you what you are, not the genes you were born with.
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines. Would you please not create accounts to do that with, and particularly not use HN for ideological battle? It's not what this place is for.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines. I respect that it is in part about your personal experience, but it's also race bait, which is not allowed here because it reliably creates flamewars. Please don't post like this to Hacker News.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 21.6 ms ] threadEven more ironic that rather than their fully clawed cats scratching at the, no doubt, expected, powerful WASP (e.g. Trump) target, it turns out that a lot of the abusers are the establishments darlings.
And I couldn't enjoy it more.
As a brown man, I can say, I feel like a lot of white women now are on the attack and often attacking all men for equality. They should be attacking college educated white men, because brown men still make less, are incarcerated more, and have less access to resource than a white woman. It feels like they’re trying to win the oppression olympics while the rest of us are simply trying to eat and stay warm.
Of course you could move past the tribalism and live on your own merits, but you want to play the race victim card instead. Pathetic.
The irony is that the only difference between White Supremacy/Chauvinism and Intersectional Feminists/'White Privilege' is that the former is proud of its race/sex supposed superiority, while the latter accepts the formers superiority but complains about it.
It's time to move past tribalism, whether as an imagined superior, or as an imagined inferior victim, and rely on ones merits. Your decisions make you what you are, not the genes you were born with.
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