ok, keep your asshole friends and be associated with them I guess? point proven?

If you’re not calling out that kind of behavior when you encounter it among your social group then you are definitely complicit. Is it a morally corrupt position? Not necessarily, but you’re complicit and you’re enabling it.

It’s true that men as a broad group have a duty to confront and correct that behavior within their social groups and families etc. and that might be where that sentiment is coming from, but we live in a world where people can and do live in bubbles.

100%, liberals won’t let go of the root causes of the problems and will keep patching and reforming and patching and reforming all the while every little crisis brings fascism back from the shadows

I’m not the original person you were speaking to but this is a good example of systemic issues. You don’t need individuals to be racist or sexist or conspire to do bad things if there’s a systemic trend that people in powerful positions are a homogeneous class with their own relatively aligned interests and social circles.

Billionaires don’t know poor people, billionaires are usually white men, billionaires have similar self interest. Billionaires wield a huge amount of power. BOOM. systemic racism and sexism without requiring everyone to scheme and coordinate.

This is why liberals fixate on gender and race representation in higher positions, and this is why I and other leftists just want to dismantle unbalanced power structures that give billionaires everything and allow them to exist.

I’d say there’s some unavoidable bias there. If we judge the dominant masculine culture by the degree to which people emphasize masculinity then of course the loud ultra masculine people will seem like the representation.

Lots of men out there just being men

The “white people” idea has some merit when you consider that whiteness has usually been an arbitrary group of races and cultures that define the dominant group in western society. The whole “Italians and Irish weren’t once considered white” thing.

Obviously individuals can experience hardship and you might even argue that preferring non-white candidates or other affirmative action is harmful (I’m not going to, but you can).

My position on this is that everything is a patch on fundamental inequality and I’d rather just get to anarcho-communism so we don’t have to solve 100 individual problems caused by historical racism and the capitalist machinery that lets that manifest as unjust distribution of wealth.

Regardless of age and gender and familial success in past generations we should all be equal.

(I’m not gonna argue that either)

Hey man if you ever find yourself in a situation where they make drugs that can make you better I think you should take them

last word!

Please obey I mod Lemmy

i disagree with your priorities in life and the degree to which minute power makes you feel large

Follows in what way? Chronologically? Am I to believe you’re predicting the future?

pay the court fine or serve your sentence, your stolen goods are now forfeit

peak Lemmy world behavior

Empathy can absolutely develop over time. This rhetoric is not useful. Even dumb fucking right wing pieces of shit feel empathy when their in-group is affected.

If hate can be learned so can empathy, what you’re suggesting is dehumanizing

Oh hey it’s once again the “freedom advocate” who is always spouting off support for the most fascist oppressive shit going on in the world. I should learn how to block in this new app

Having the military defend the Constitution against tyrants is an idea baked into a lot of cultures, and is true of Turkey. It was a core idea of the Turkish Republic

but surely we have to go back to the Sassanids to find an analogue for current events

I’m sorry I’ve been dragging them into the theater and making them play games they don’t want to play, it’s my fault

Not like minded… I’m not opposed to the principles you lay out in your abstract but the monarchy power structure isn’t what I’m interested in.

Socialism, communism, and ultimately anarchism are the way forward in my opinion.