@ Samseau
This argument equating the dynamics and impetus of feminism with racism and civil rights is so specious one marvels at the mental malpractice required to assert it.
This is wrong in the extreme because of the obvious counterargument that lots of right-wingers don't seem to get: being male isn’t unidirectionally privileged over being female, in a way that being white is unidirectionally privileged over being black. If you don't understand that it's because you're trying really hard not to.
@ Athlone
When you have to actually define, using a dictionary, what racism actually is that should be a clue that you aren't dealing with intellectually honest---or particularly well-informed---interlocutors. It is for this reason that I, personally, don't engage in protracted dialogue on the forum--especially with right-wingers. They aren't working from a similarly broad knowledge base and they are, most times, willfully blind. Hats off to you for doing what you do here---I don't have the time, inclination or the energy. I imagine a man of your talents probably just likes the target practice though.
@ iknowexactly
Agree with your comment. The idea that Barack Obama's daughters may be eligible for affirmative action while a broke white kid from West Virginia isn't, is bullshit. Race-based affirmative should be repealed and socioeconomic affirmative action (where needed) be installed as the new paradigm.
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"Athlone's version of racism closely resembles the kinds of arguments feminists use to claim that women do not receive the same jobs and opportunities men do, which of course are terribly weak arguments, while ignoring the fact that westernized women have the highest standards of living in the entire world compared to what non-western women receive."
This argument equating the dynamics and impetus of feminism with racism and civil rights is so specious one marvels at the mental malpractice required to assert it.
This is wrong in the extreme because of the obvious counterargument that lots of right-wingers don't seem to get: being male isn’t unidirectionally privileged over being female, in a way that being white is unidirectionally privileged over being black. If you don't understand that it's because you're trying really hard not to.
@ Athlone
When you have to actually define, using a dictionary, what racism actually is that should be a clue that you aren't dealing with intellectually honest---or particularly well-informed---interlocutors. It is for this reason that I, personally, don't engage in protracted dialogue on the forum--especially with right-wingers. They aren't working from a similarly broad knowledge base and they are, most times, willfully blind. Hats off to you for doing what you do here---I don't have the time, inclination or the energy. I imagine a man of your talents probably just likes the target practice though.
@ iknowexactly
Agree with your comment. The idea that Barack Obama's daughters may be eligible for affirmative action while a broke white kid from West Virginia isn't, is bullshit. Race-based affirmative should be repealed and socioeconomic affirmative action (where needed) be installed as the new paradigm.