The fact that people on this hellsite can’t seem to comprehend that minorities can be antisemitic is nuts.
Many people on this site seem to think minorities are incapable of any kind of bigotry. Especially if the minority person doesn't fit within American standards of whiteness.
something i’ve noticed that has developed in leftist philosophy over the years is the idea that someone who’s marginalized can’t do harm. they have this idea that someone who experiences structural oppression is disempowered and therefore doesn’t have enough power to actually cause harm to anyone. i agree with a lot of theories around structural oppression and marginalization but many lefties warp it and take it to the extreme as a way of ensuring they will never be held accountable for their actions.
additionally, they also love butchering crenshaw’s intersectionality theory and cherry picking the parts of the theory which allow them to never have to reflect on their own actions.
It's just repackaged noble savage.
Social privilege does not make you any more immune to weapons or physical violence (or even verbal and emotional violence really). And yes, that counts as harm.
It's the same false binary "oppressed/oppressor" mentality that gets used all the time to erase oppression men face.
If men are oppressors, they can't be oppressed, regardless of the individual situation.
Men aren't oppressed for being men, though. They're oppressed for being non-white, LGBTQ+, a certain age, disabled, poor, for following a religion, or for being an immigrant. Men are not oppressed specifically for being men.
What "oppression" men claim to face, is either the result of the white supremacist, capitalist, and patriarchal system they created and uphold, or they're complaining they can't get dates (or just laid) because they get their relationship advice from podcasts run by incels, sexual predators, and domestic abusers.
Also feminism is part of the reason certain issues men face (i.e. high suicide risks and sexual assault), but rather than support feminism, men choose to oppose feminism. Because men's egos are dependent on being centered in everything (including topics that don't concern them), and feminism doesn't do that.
Thank you for providing an example of the objectively wrong argument terrible people keep making to try and silence men from talking about their oppression! You can fuck off now.
OK got some sleep let's break down why this argument is not only objectively wrong but anti-feminist.
Men aren't oppressed for being men, though. They're oppressed for being non-white, LGBTQ+, a certain age, disabled, poor, for following a religion, or for being an immigrant. Men are not oppressed specifically for being men.
There is oppression non-white men face that is different from how non-white women are oppressed. Same with literally every other group you mentioned. Saying that "Black men are not oppressed for being men just for being Black" is treating men's experience as the default. Centering men's experience like this is the reason why Black women had to create the term misogynoir to talk about the oppression they experience as Black women. Misogynoir is a useful term, but there still should be a term for Black men as well simply because the oppression Black men face is not the baseline oppression Black people face, it is how people are oppressed when they are Black and men.
What "oppression" men claim to face, is either the result of the white supremacist, capitalist, and patriarchal system they created and uphold, or they're complaining they can't get dates (or just laid) because they get their relationship advice from podcasts run by incels, sexual predators, and domestic abusers.
And then of course the radfem followup: imply that even minority men are not really oppressed and any who claim to be are MRAs, incels, or abusers. It's not enough to just say that men don't deserve a word to describe their oppression, she just had to follow it up with a more explicit attempt to silence any man talking about systemic oppression they face by linking them to hate groups.
This is the binary worldview that all men are oppressors and therefore cannot be oppressed, and radfem's can't help but make it clear they believe this simplistic nonsense even if it directly contradicts stuff they just said admitting that there are men being oppressed. The proof this is the same binary mindset as the rest of the thread was talking about is the mirror belief that women being oppressed means they can't be oppressors which was made clear with the erasure of all the white supremacist, capitalist women out there.