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Originally Posted by Dezzy
The fact that people are more upset about these civil rights groups being loud about their cause rather than the inequality that is causing them to stand up and make themselves known in the first place says it all really.
A lot of the 'oh we don't need labels, we don't need this/that' mentality that comes from people who aren't part of the demographic protesting is simply just another way of saying 'you need to be quiet, we like the status quo'.
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You are missing the point
It's about how best to liberate ourselves from a dangerous mentality that judges people not as individuals - but according to their 'type'.
We have to move away from 'group-think' and embrace individualism.
As individuals we stand equal
But once you start segregating people into groups and then judging them according to your social barometer, then we are in trouble. That's how racism works.
Of course we all agree that the KKK and misogynist attitudes are wrong for how they demonise innocent people according to their race or gender.
But Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement - also do
the same thing: judge people according to race and gender!
It's just the same mentality in reverse!
Innocent white people are demonised by BLM, and innocent men are demonised by #MeToo
TRUE that racists and misogynists started this racial/gender divide - but we have to be SO careful not to perpetuate it by doing the EXACT same thing and demonising innocent INDIVIDUALS out of some kind of 'social revenge'.
Crimes against blacks or women were not committed by ALL whites or ALL men - so why demonise the whole genre?
It's like blaming ALL MUSLIMS for the attacks by ISIS!
Crimes were committed by INDIVIDUALS and those people must be held to account.
Don't blame their whole race/gender or religion!
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