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White Women Need Not Apply

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Re: White Women Need Not Apply

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Post by reaperducer »

Yetanfou wrote: post #13

Well, I'm not. This is nothing but a load of racist and intersectionalist tripe uttered by a brainwashed zealot who starts her twitter bio with a preferred pronoun. It represents a lot of what went wrong between the 90's and now. The solution to these problems might just be to a) totally ignore these self-proclaimed representatives of 'oppressed' groups and b) do exactly those things which they don't want you to do.…

intersectionalist

This is a new word for me. I Googled a bit, but didn't find anything helpful to fit it into the context of your comment. Can you explain it a bit?

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Post by PradeetPatel »

Although I normally agree with the notion of "In order to allow the voices of the less privileged to be heard, some voices must be limited." especially when it comes to hate speech or divisive topics.

However I'm not sure how I should feel about this scenario, one could argue that she's on a platform reserved for PoCs. Alternatively, the colour of her skin shouldn't play a part in her opinion.

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Post by cma »

idea_heroin wrote: post #8

This is a big reason for Trump’s appeal - being able to rally behind someone who can so effectively withstand constant derision from all directions. Moreover, the apologists on this site and elsewhere will continue to excuse this behavior until they are backed into a corner and enclosed into a tomb of their own making.

Trump did largely all the same stuff, canceling Kaepernick and others.

Not sure if they are both professors, but, if so, I'd wager his evangelical base wouldn't allow either woman in the article to teach at their evangelical schools on ideological grounds, canceling them from reaching a whole set of students.

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Post by infoseek12 »

macspoofing wrote: post #9
nooyurrsdey wrote: post #4

I feel like I'm so burnt out from reading about conflict. I can't even comment on who is right or wrong...it feels like such an overinflated digital age argument.

>it feels like such an overinflated digital age argument. It is and if it just stayed on twitter it would be a nothing burger ... but somebody's real life career, good name, and business was destroyed. It wasn't the first time this happened in the past 5 years (but especially in the past year) From the article: "Roost’s podcast network dropped her show; her producer publicly denounced her character (“We stand against…

I agree, I think a lot of people are going to look back on this period with more than a little embarrassment. What will make it worse for them is that so much of what they said and did will remain preserved forever.

It is kind of entertaining in a guilty sort of way. Like Jerry Springer or a car crash it can be hard to look away. And they do seem mostly to be going after one another so it’s hard to feel too much sympathy for the victims.

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Post by [deleted] »

idea_heroin wrote: post #8

This is a big reason for Trump’s appeal - being able to rally behind someone who can so effectively withstand constant derision from all directions. Moreover, the apologists on this site and elsewhere will continue to excuse this behavior until they are backed into a corner and enclosed into a tomb of their own making.

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Post by Reedx »

t-writescode wrote: post #2

I thought everyone was supposed to read Nathanial Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter” in high school. Maybe it should return to being required reading.

I have a feeling a lot of people missed that one, along with the writing of George Orwell.

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Post by FartyMcFarter »

There is a name for this: Oppression Olympics [1].

For almost any group you can think of, there's a more oppressed group that feels entitled to rave against the former group.

Fortunately most people are not that bitter, I certainly hope so at least.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppression_Olympics

Re: White Women Need Not Apply

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Post by darth_avocado »

notsuoh wrote: post #11

A lot of drama here that seems to spill out into real life. Two opposing sides. But, they're largely on the same side it seems like. One seems to have made a mistake in submitting her article unknowingly to a blog that doesn't accept articles from white women, and the other wasn't happy about this or the tone from the first person.

This entire situation is so absurd. Two people who are equally rude are offended by each other and then air their grievances on Social media to gain sympathy and blow this out of proportion. And everyone around them is trying to distance themselves from the blowout inadvertently creating an even bigger blowout.

It's almost as if people forget that there's consequences of everything you do, especially on the internet.

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