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In reply to the discussion: Is there anyway now that we can be considered not racist? [View all]AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)To be bluntly truthful with you, I don't remember this....well, insanity, is what it is, being much of a problem before 2013.....and then things all of a sudden started going down the shitter.
I really don't know how else to say this, but, we may be in deep, deep trouble at this point. Look around you, folks: there are a fair number of otherwise genuinely egalitarian people who've been scared away from progressivism, thanks to much of the hardcore SJW craziness which has permeated the internet, at the hands of a few individuals, over the past couple of years or so, perhaps especially of the "Critical Race Theory" version worst of all, but the radfems aren't terribly far behind, etc.....and this De Vega article is just ONE example of the former. And many of the more moderate folks on our side haven't done nearly enough to address these issues.....and it's all playing into the hands of many of the very same reactionaries that are trying desperately to turn back the clock on women's rights, interethnic relations, etc.(just look at how Bill O'Reilly's been taking "white privilege" and running with it!); we are in seriously real trouble right now, folks.
And to a lot of "radical" folks here on DU, of any stripe, who've been sucked into this vortex: I know I've personally been hard on some of you, and perhaps a little excessively at times; I'm sorry, and I realize most of y'all are decent people IRL. But please, try to listen a little better, to those of us who are seeing the problems, and are trying to point them out. We're not opposed to feminism or social justice, etc., as core concepts! We are only opposed to the extremists that have hijacked, or at least tried to hijack, both concepts for their own personal gains, or vengeances. Other than that, we could probably agree on most everything.
But we need to start addressing these problems, and right now. We just can't wait any longer.....and it's going to take all of us to set things right again.