TransgenderVaultDeweller
"Fallout 4 adds to the lore"
Patriarchy strikes again
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Kill it with fire.My sister is a feminist and is trying to "teach me" about it. Any advice?
I do believe you are correct good sir.
Both, more or less. While it started as a troll-thread to summon Sander, it's definitely possible to have some proper discussions about feminism in here.Is this thread for or against feminism? Sorry, I cant really tell
I can understand the sentiment; believe it as well. These types of things always draw both vocal groups from both sides shouting their rhetoric. Yes there are vocal moderates but they are not sensational enough to be media worthy.The main reason I personally stay out of this debate, most of the time, is that I don't like saying stuff that's gonna reward neo-fascist attitudes. Yes, some men are sometimes abused by women, this has been known since the dawn of time, except we typically tend to laugh at it, and accuse the man in question of lacking testicles.
Take the whole muslim rage lately. I'm an atheist. As an atheist, I view all muslims as mistaken. Just as mistaken as a Christian or a Buddhist. And I don't care that buddhism is often viewed as much more peaceful, they believe humanity is about sitting still for as long as possible, and to me, that's retarded.
But if I say "muslims are stupid", I'm gonna get hi-fived by pig-snouted skinheads, and it's just not worth it. In all, these past 10-15 years are annoying as hell in terms of discussing politics...
Can't agree any more. Whats that one fallacy thing called; no true Scotsman? (Don't know, never studied logic.) All groups can be pretty horrible and have gentle sides yet most seem to fall down to "Well we're not all that way." while they're core beliefs can allow for such extremism.Oh there are militant Buddhists. And what I know about Buddhism fits inside a thimble. But it's enough to know that you really shouldn't be presuming anything monolithic about them since there are a befuddling number of sects and cultural varieties . . . not unlike say, every dominant religion in the modern world today. I mean you could go on about secular atheistic Christians down to the most hardcore millenialist fundie. If you're not in the cult in question, a lot of that information is just impossible to care about.
Muslims generally just look like much less gentrified Christians of any era. They do the same things. There's a lot of accusatory, but those guys really aren't real Scotsman. To which I think, "Who fucking cares? It's always your word versus theirs." Yes, I know, you don't think Westboro is representative of your view of Christianity and that Al Qaeda isn't your idea of a genteel Islam. I don't care. Over the long run, Islam isn't going to look much different from Christianity. Judaism is also pretty fucking awful in the way it manifests itself as Zionism.
The main reason I personally stay out of this debate, most of the time, is that I don't like saying stuff that's gonna reward neo-fascist attitudes. Yes, some men are sometimes abused by women, this has been known since the dawn of time, except we typically tend to laugh at it, and accuse the man in question of lacking testicles.
Take the whole muslim rage lately. I'm an atheist. As an atheist, I view all muslims as mistaken. Just as mistaken as a Christian or a Buddhist. And I don't care that buddhism is often viewed as much more peaceful, they believe humanity is about sitting still for as long as possible, and to me, that's retarded.
But if I say "muslims are stupid", I'm gonna get hi-fived by pig-snouted skinheads, and it's just not worth it. In all, these past 10-15 years are annoying as hell in terms of discussing politics...
Because the basic idea of communism is benevolent, while fascism/being a Nazi is inarguably evil?
What I'm saying is it's easier to claim that you are not bad if you are communist, not that it is necessarily true. I doubt you'll find a Neo-Nazi who isn't racist, which easily offends (and potentially scares) many.So, killing ten times more people is okay, so long as your basic idea is benevolent?
Eh, I'd have chipped in and been a pedant by saying that "inarguable" is a bit too much.
The people who are fascists/authoritarians tend to be the sort that think giving up a bit of freedom is worth that bit of security and public order (perceived or real).
If they're genuinely white supremacists, quite a few of them do believe that bit about "separate but equal" and a lot of Americans really do think that the Civil War wasn't really about slavery. You can also argue that this is a thin excuse for exploiting other people.
Talk to the right (or wrong) sort of people and you will find plenty of argument.
The Legion's justification for slavery mirrors how we used to justify it before.
They're lazy. There's no chance of them being productive and it's for their own good. And the average Legionary really believes you really are just dissolute savages. Or profligates, which is just you pretending to be civilized. White man's burden anybody?
*cough* I'm not looking at anybody in particular here though when I say all this though.
Sitting still for as long as possible is retarded, sure, but so is shying away from expressing your opinions just because you don't like the people who share them with you, if you don't mind me saying.