# Black men as "canaries in the coal mine"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-men-as-canaries-in-the-coal-mine/723930>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 1, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-men-as-canaries-in-the-coal-mine/723930 "2015-07-01T02:35:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-men-as-canaries-in-the-coal-mine/723930/41 "2015-07-04T00:52:05Z")

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The thread title caught my eye. Many years ago I read a blog/forum discussion that made that same analogy, except it was either a white nationalist or MRA bent. And you know who they blamed for the destruction of the family and traditional values? Feminists. Sounds like another win for the [horseshoe theory.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory)

> [@msmith537](#):
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> What I think, from the five minutes I spent looking at the audience full of limp-dicks in that video is that most of them should consider themselves lucky they don’t live in a “traditional male-dominated society”.

My sides have ascended into another plane of reality. I think that’s /thread.

Ya never know, though. Audie Murphy was a fresh faced short kid who looked like the guy who got his lunch money stolen. Then again, he had a pretty rough upbringing, so, point.

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