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PeonForHer -> RE: I Love My White Male Privilege! (3/14/2016 12:10:13 PM)
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I can assure you that studying 3 millenia of Chinese history will give you a full and frank appreciation of the Chinese ability to shed blood - mostly peasant blood.
One of the problems I have with normal people is the depth of their stupidity and their inability to think, so let's take an example of how a lack of thought and adherence to political correctness can result in a proliferation of useful idiots.
I don't know what occasioned that lengthy and bizarre tirade, Awareness. But I do think that, just occasionally, you should stop and consider that maybe the world is not, as you appear to think it is, divided between extraordinary people such as yourself, and ordinary people such as me and apparently everyone else on the forum. You've missed the essential point of what I was saying to Greta.
Interrelatedly, and as is usual with attacks of this kind, yours zeroes in what you call 'political correctness'. This is a cotton wool covered toy-mallet for lazy right wingers, I've generally found, and you're not an exception, I'm afraid.
What I was trying to get across to Greta concerned the 'ecological fallacy'. This a fallacy in which 'inferences about the nature of individuals are deduced from inference for the group to which those individuals belong'. Thus, for instance, and in order to understand any given Muslim person, I can't simply read the Koran and claim that I 'know that Muslim person'.
That would also be true of any given Chinese person. Thus, whatever Chinese culture is (or even has been like - though the latter case is about history and is of lesser relevance, because we were all, the world over, savages once), I can't know Greta from knowledge of that culture. Chinese culture as a whole may well have been violent and may well be violent now (both true, in many ways and there are lots of examples). But this does not infer that Greta herself is violent. And for the record, I'd be astonished to find out that she *is* violent.
Racism involves an example of the ecological fallacy. It suggests that what can be said of the group can always be said of any individual considered to be 'of that group'.
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Stop whining. Harden the fuck up. If you're a screeching feminist, you're either a dude trying to get laid or a woman too pathetic to make something of herself.
I don't know what a 'screeching feminist' is. A feminist, however, is someone who believes that women are of equal value as men and should be treated that way. A man with some brains and any basic sense of justice would support that. A woman who believes the same and pushes for it *has* hardened the fuck up'. It's those who shudder away from such pushing that need some lead in their pencils.
As for this oft-repeated drivel about how men who support feminism are only doing so in order to get in the sack with women ... . Really, Awareness? Has that been your empirical experience - feminist men that you've known have always had loads of squelching action? Because it's not been true in my case - never, since I started supporting feminism decades ago. If anything, women *on the whole* are suspicious of male feminists. And there's quite a lot of a certain sort of woman - not my sort, I have to say - who actually get their jollies from the idea of copping off with virulently anti-feminist men.
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This is what I mean about stupid. Intellectual blind spots, inability to see their own hypocrisy, whipping themselves up into a hysterical frenzy about their own faults exhibited in other people.
Come on, man. Look in the mirror.
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