The recent "misandry" posts/comments were like flypaper, weren't they? (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I haven't seen this kind of scratched liberalism since the outrage against account pronoun preferences years back.

Maybe "struggle session" is the wrong term because there's a clear and obvious side for comrades and another for scratched liberals.

Maybe Hexbear needs occasional flypaper sessions for the community's health.

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago

Being cautious of white people is absolutely the right attitude. I have white skin, and too many times have I been talking to some white guy who I thought was fairly reasonable until they hit me with some frothingfash shit and assume I'll agree because I'm a straight-passing white guy.

I 100% don't blame anyone who's sus of me because of my skin

[-] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

You hit the core of what lmayo people often either can't or won't understand; it's about systems, not individuals.

and now that you bring it up i wonder how much liberal capitalitalist hyper individuality and meritocracy contributes to protecting whote supremacy.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

Western society does seem specifically designed to slap down all thoughts of analyzing social systems.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

liberal capitalitalist hyper individuality

This is a primary support system for white supremacy. From it spawns "I got mine, fuck you" and a number of other social poisons that maintains the white supremacist status quo.

When personal identity is perceived as something bought and worn like Twitter flair emojis, it makes being a disadvantaged person seem like a choice.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

To quote /u/BeamBrain

White supremacy is the black hole at the center of liberal thought: not directly observable, but made apparent by how all of their other ideas orbit around it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

If jexbear is remembered at all it will ne for this.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

This is the way.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

100% my same experience

[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

I pass as white-ish (my ancestry is complicated) and Silicon Valley techbros often mistook me for someone that wanted to hear their "soft eugenics" arguments and the like. flashbang

[-] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

and assume I'll agree because I'm a straight-passing white guy.

It’s crazy just how true this is. And this is especially so when you’re a very generic NPC-looking white guy to boot. Nearly all chuds just assume if you look like them you think like them. It’s like, hey, you’re a white guy so you get tons of privilege, why would you ever want that to end?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

yea my appearance is very much "basic white guy" jeans, T-shirt, and flannel most of the time. I've been talking to guys that I've worked with for months, long enough for me to start thinking "ok, sure maybe they're your average"nonpolitical" guys who don't bother with politics because they think it doesn't really affect them, maybe I can push some union ideas, stuff like that", then they heard something on the radio and start ranting about "alphabet people" and "groomers" all while my bi ass is standing there :im-in-danger: and I start thinking about a career change

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Trying to recruit you to their party

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

If you're born into the category of straight-looking white dude then your entire life in 'polite' society is one long game of Secret Hitler

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Charlie Chaplain looking around all nervous

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