>>2196087>I get your point, but if you think having to hear "white guys suck" is enough to have valid resentment that justifies turning away from leftism as a white guy and warranting accomodation for white guys, then doesn't the same conclusion apply to non-whites in terms of racism, women in terms of misogyny and queer people in terms of queerphobia by a thousand fold?Yes, 100% I'm glad you agree. We shouldn't be insulting or belittling queer people, or women, or minorities. It's partially why I brought up that "Racism is Power + Prejudice" thing; don't see it used anymore but I remember it being used
excessively back in the day, usually over the most minor or petty insults. Now I don't know what they're teaching now, but in my day racism had a really simple definition: mistreating someone because of their race. And while not a perfect definition, it appeals to common sense, to that golden rule: "treat others the way you want to be treated." So the premise is simple, if you don't want to be looked down on and yelled at because of who
you are, you don't do that to others. If you belittle or insult, for example, a black man, then you're opening the door to them doing the same right back.
>The extent of harm and suffering brought about by a supestructure centered around white hetero males, in which white hetero males prevelantely participate in, is much greater than a white guy occassionally hearing some variant of "white guys suck" on the internet. And in that case isn't it less realistic to expect poc/female/queer people to look past their resenment when your solution deems it unrealistic to ask white guys to do it, when their experience of perceived antagonism is puny in comparison?You may have to elaborate more on this. Like are we saying it's harmful if, for example, some hobby or sport is mostly populated by white guys? In which case I'd argue that defining the mere existence of white men in any large number in any one particular institution as inherently harmful is a bit dicey. However I think I might be misunderstanding what you're saying here.
As for looking past resentment, it's got to start somewhere. Now personally I've had coworkers and peers (when I was in uni) who would say that "white
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