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This is an interesting blog- the author is quite the character. http://owningyourshit.blogspot.ca
Anyone ever hear of Karen Straughan? She is a Canadian "anti feminist" (not really sure what that means) and has somewhat of a following these days. Apparently she receives death threats from SJW daily....
Just a warning, some people (mostly academics) have identified this as "hate speech" but I think it more accurate to say it is speech that they hate. (and, it does not fulfill the legal criteria for hate speech).
It does, however, give one pause to think about how easy it can be to incite one group against another and therefore very important to recognize.
For example, when scrolling her site I came across this Open Letter to Sargan of Akkad (who I gather is also some sort of Alt Right idiot):
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"We have a culture in the west where every group is allowed to play identity politics based on innate characteristics, except for the following: straights, cisgenders, males and whites.
We also have a culture in the west where every group but the above is protected by legislation, and where institutional discrimination is legally permissible against the above categories.
We ALSO have a cultural narrative that has been institutionalized in academia, law, politics, news media, social work, education and popular culture that describes the above-named groups as 1) responsible for creating a system that oppresses all other groups; 2) complicit in this oppression not by participation in the system, but by virtue of simply being who they are and therefore benefiting unjustly from said system; 3) uniquely monstrous in historical terms (colonialism, exploitation, slavery, etc); 4) enjoying "unearned privilege" over other groups; 5) uniquely capable of inflicting harm, even when harm is not intended; and 6) in control of everything.
More than this, group slander against these groups, and even incitement to violence against them ("all men are pigs", "men are scum", "violence has a male face", #KillAllWhiteMen, #All I want for Christmas is White Genocide, etc) is seen as socially and legally permissible. The public discourse actively stirs up animosity and resentment against these particular groups, and promotes narratives that these groups are victimizers and that fear of them based on their biological characteristics alone is justified (m&ms anyone? How about white on black racism and police shootings?).
The demonization narrative and the legal dehumanizing slander are cultural conditions that precede actual genocides. It doesn't matter if any of it is true. All that matters is that enough people believe it's true and that it is considered legally and socially acceptable to demonize and dehumanize the target group."
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Far too many white males see these statements as something they can identify with, which in itself drives up the social tension. It is, at best, defective sub woofer noise in the SNR ratio. Personally, I find it hard to reconcile these statements with the present, but I can see how things might turn out if a little more balance does not return to our present culture of victimhood. Some political, judicial and academic adulthood does need to surface from time to time.
Anyone ever hear of Karen Straughan? She is a Canadian "anti feminist" (not really sure what that means) and has somewhat of a following these days. Apparently she receives death threats from SJW daily....
Just a warning, some people (mostly academics) have identified this as "hate speech" but I think it more accurate to say it is speech that they hate. (and, it does not fulfill the legal criteria for hate speech).
It does, however, give one pause to think about how easy it can be to incite one group against another and therefore very important to recognize.
For example, when scrolling her site I came across this Open Letter to Sargan of Akkad (who I gather is also some sort of Alt Right idiot):
Begin Snip
"We have a culture in the west where every group is allowed to play identity politics based on innate characteristics, except for the following: straights, cisgenders, males and whites.
We also have a culture in the west where every group but the above is protected by legislation, and where institutional discrimination is legally permissible against the above categories.
We ALSO have a cultural narrative that has been institutionalized in academia, law, politics, news media, social work, education and popular culture that describes the above-named groups as 1) responsible for creating a system that oppresses all other groups; 2) complicit in this oppression not by participation in the system, but by virtue of simply being who they are and therefore benefiting unjustly from said system; 3) uniquely monstrous in historical terms (colonialism, exploitation, slavery, etc); 4) enjoying "unearned privilege" over other groups; 5) uniquely capable of inflicting harm, even when harm is not intended; and 6) in control of everything.
More than this, group slander against these groups, and even incitement to violence against them ("all men are pigs", "men are scum", "violence has a male face", #KillAllWhiteMen, #All I want for Christmas is White Genocide, etc) is seen as socially and legally permissible. The public discourse actively stirs up animosity and resentment against these particular groups, and promotes narratives that these groups are victimizers and that fear of them based on their biological characteristics alone is justified (m&ms anyone? How about white on black racism and police shootings?).
The demonization narrative and the legal dehumanizing slander are cultural conditions that precede actual genocides. It doesn't matter if any of it is true. All that matters is that enough people believe it's true and that it is considered legally and socially acceptable to demonize and dehumanize the target group."
End Snip
Far too many white males see these statements as something they can identify with, which in itself drives up the social tension. It is, at best, defective sub woofer noise in the SNR ratio. Personally, I find it hard to reconcile these statements with the present, but I can see how things might turn out if a little more balance does not return to our present culture of victimhood. Some political, judicial and academic adulthood does need to surface from time to time.
