QuoteI see the Chattanooga shooting as terrorism because the shooter was (presumably, could be wrong) carrying out the attack in support of IS. IS being a foreign entity that is, or wanting, to be at war with the west, or anyone not being the right kind of Muslim. So it kinda stands as an attack from outside America, if you know what I'm getting at. Charleston was indeed an attack by an extremist but just seems more like outright murder, just like anyone can shoot someone in the street because they are racist or whatever, but it would be murder not terrorism.
There are plenty of white power right-wing extremist organizations, groups/cells and internet sites out there advocating all kinds of violence and terror attacks against non-whites and non-christians. Some of them are even urging a so called race war and/or just simply overthrow the government altogether and start a new civil war as they feel like white people and culture are about to be extinct or overtaken by savages if white people don't start "fighting back".
Charleston was an organized attack meant to instill terror in black people, it had a political message shared and approved by others, and it was certainly not the first attack of its nature - it was a terrorist attack. And like most people committing these terror attacks, no matter Islamist or white supremacist, they are broken and lost individuals trying to find meaning in life in the wrong places as they are full of rage, have a huge ego, underdeveloped empathic ability etc. They need help.
QuoteI agree with you on the same sex marriage, all I'm saying is the White House should of been more professional, it represents everyone all of the time, at the same time. There was no need to light it up like that.
Not if we want to be a democracy. You can't be a democracy yet denying certain groups of people fundamental rights, discriminating them on a federal level.
The discrimination has been going on for so long and generations men and women have staid in the closet, torturing themselves pretending to be straight, living fake heterosexual lives in fear of being beat up, murdered, lose their job, lose their family and friends, just for being gay. I think it is very much appropriate to celebrate it on a national level.
Quote from: DoomRulz on Jul 22, 2015, 08:30:14 PM
So the followers of a movement are not reflective of that movement? Duly noted. I'll remember that the next time you, and others, claim MRAs and others in the manosphere are just whiny white men afraid of losing their privilege.
That's not the same at all... Oh my god Doom...
First of all women want to have the same possibilities, rights and respect as men - not bring men down to limited world of women. As long as these MRAs acknowledge this and bark up the right tree, which isn't feminism but "traditionalism" (which I call the patriarchy), I don't see anything wrong with men focusing on actual injustices against men and challenging male norms, working together with feminists rather than butting heads with the crazies.
QuoteAnd hilariously enough, feminism was started by white women and for the most part, represented (and still is) by white women. Oh, the irony.
That is quite simplistic. But you are right, a majority of leading feminists are indeed white women, but far from all. Feminazis on the other hand tend to be white, mostly. Maybe it's the white privilege shining through? Who knows...
QuoteNo, they're not trusted because men are assumed to be inherently deviant. We're assumed that we're pedos in waiting and not safe to be around kids. Don't believe me? Read this.
That is an extension of the old ways/days, morphed into modern day hysteria and media outrage.
Like I said many times before - patriarchal structures and systemic discrimination against women has its downsides for men as well and are becoming more and more apparent and absurd as the old ways are questioned and society is changing. Now that's something for MRAs to sink their teeth in...
QuoteI agree we need more men, but I want those men to come because they want to, not because they're being mandated to.
They won't come because they don't want to unless mandated to since these kinds of jobs are underpaid, looked down upon and seen as a job for women, not men. Making these jobs more attractive, inclusive and less stigmatic for men is necessary or nothing will happen. Quotas go both ways.
QuoteThere will always be inherent biological differences between men and women, no matter how hard we try to deny it. There's nothing wrong with those differences. It's what makes us unique as a species. It only becomes a problem when we start treating each other differently (read: in an inferior manner). But we have to recognize that sometimes, those physical differences mean that women won't always be able to keep up with a man. If that offends you, well, too bad.
I never said that there are differences. What I said that some of those acclaimed differences are all due to upbringing whereas others are indisputable. And as I said, we have technology to bridge some of the gaps whereas other need changes in cultural and societal attitudes.
QuoteSpend time on Twitter and Tumblr. You'll find a veritable gold mine.
No thank you, I would kill myself. Twitter and Tumblr is just social media insanity, brain fart championships on crack.
