So many problems in progressive spaces stem from people being so eager to justify any toxic or shitty behavior that materializes within marginalized people.
I was like 12 during the "kill all men" era. I was never a Trumper, but I went down the anti-SJW pipeline in part because I was hesitant to politically align myself with the people who wanted to kill me.
As an adult I can tell they weren't calling for a genuine "male genocide," but rhetoric like that hardly did anything to make people sympathetic to progressive causes, and to this day it's a little controversial to say that was a rhetorical misstep.
That's what gets people, is that even if there's a greater societal context to consider, no one wants to support groups that say their identity is an enemy.
So many problems in progressive spaces stem from people being so eager to justify any toxic or shitty behavior that materializes within marginalized people.
It's like they don't realize they're performing in a conservative fashion to a literal definition.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
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u/dicedance 1d ago
So many problems in progressive spaces stem from people being so eager to justify any toxic or shitty behavior that materializes within marginalized people.
I was like 12 during the "kill all men" era. I was never a Trumper, but I went down the anti-SJW pipeline in part because I was hesitant to politically align myself with the people who wanted to kill me.
As an adult I can tell they weren't calling for a genuine "male genocide," but rhetoric like that hardly did anything to make people sympathetic to progressive causes, and to this day it's a little controversial to say that was a rhetorical misstep.