Admiral X wrote:Really it's just a way of dividing people up and assigning stereotypes to these groups which are used as a basis for discrimination.
Acknowledging bigotry exists and trying to address the problem makes you a bigot? Or am I somehow misunderstanding this point?
Mostly this is aimed at the "straight white male" group, but I've seen plenty of instances of hate and bigotry being used against others who don't fit the stereotype of whatever group the moral crusaders have decided they belong to.
Yeah, straight white men are definitely the most persecuted.
That's why a cabal of racist, misogynist, xenophobic white men currently controls two (likely soon to be all three) branches of the Federal government of the United States, as well as most state governments.
This, this is the Right wing persecution complex, one of the great lies of our time: That they are not only being persecuted, but persecuted
far more than anyone else, because people are actually allowed to criticize them, and they do not control everything.
This post right here: this is "The uppity n***ers should know their place.", dressed up in modern language.
For example, conservative black people being referred to as "coon," "Uncle Tom," and other epithets by those claiming to be "progressive."
You know, I've never once seen a progressive use those terms to refer to a Conservative, and most progressives would probably consider those terms bigoted (which they are).
I smell Fake News. Or, at best, one or two rare examples being cherry-picked and then treated as the norm.
If they were truely progressive, not only would they not do shit like that, but they'd seek an egalitarian, merit-based system, where everyone is treated equally under the law no matter what arbitrary attributes they happened to have been born with.
Its hard to have a merit-based system when members of some groups generally start from a disadvantaged position.
This argument amounts to "Okay, now that I've knee-capped you, let's run a fair race."
But even leaving that aside, I've noticed that a lot of people on the Right start raging any time a minority or woman gets picked for a high-profile job (like, say, a starring role in a film), immediately assuming that they got the job because of political correctness and affirmative action. The obvious implication being that no woman or minority could possibly have earned the job based on their merits. I make no accusation against you specifically on this point, but I find that often those who demand a merit-based system will not accept the merits of anyone who does not fit their preconceptions.
While I would love to have a truly egalitarian system, this is made harder by the number of people who
use egalitarianism as a smoke screen for bigotry. To the point that in progressive circles, one often cannot argue for egalitarianism without being seen as a bigot, not because progressives are generally
opposed to everyone having a fair shot, but in part because that is how egalitarianism has been
used by the disingenuous on the Right.