Has bill O’Reilly never apologized for racist and sexist comments because google says otherwise. Shouldn’t we forgive him like we forgive Sarah Jeong? Its not like Sarah is any less hostile to white males than she used to be.
If liberals get to pick and choose which instances of racism 'count" why should anyone take them seriously?
As far as google reveals to me, he’s apologized for, at best, a tiny fraction of the bigoted things he’s said, and none of those apologies demonstrate awareness of his bigotry, IMO.
Just a silly straw man. Different things are judged differently.
Not to derail the thread, but isnt “straight” and “gender-typical” kind of redundant?
What if we decide that straight white males cannot get into a good college unless they are athletes, legacies or wealthy? (I wonder what the admissions profile looks like for middle class straight white males who are not athletes or legacies, compared to similarly situated Asians)
What if this mentality leaks into hiring and promotions?
No, though “gender typical” is a near - meaningless phrase; perhaps he means “gender identity typical” (also known as cis)? Trans people can have “typical” genders - ie male or female, and trans people can be straight or gay or other.
Because Disney Corp. fears parents reading on twitter that they hired someone who once made pedo-themed jokes, far more than NYT Inc. has to fear you or I learning thru twitter that they hired someone who made racially offensive tweets.
One of us must be drinking, because you are making sense and I agree with you.
Doing the right thing means not doing it due to what you think others will think of you. That you only do things based on how you will be perceived isn’t being a good person. It is not about currying favor, it is about not being a shitty human being.
IF most of the straight white dudes in your peer group are shitty human beings who only pretend to do the right thing to curry favor, you need to find some better friends.
That is something that is more problematic than her comments. I don’t really read Vice, only if someone links an article here, really. But, yeah, I don’t really have a problem with the tweets in the past, but this story does raise some problems of journalistic integrity. If it is as it is presented, then she should do more than just apologize for that behavior.
You are confusing rape with consensual. You say that we"let them fuck us up the ass", which means it isn’t rape. Consensual sex would only be rape to someone who doesn’t consider that sort of sex to be legitimate.
No, making an analogy to consensual sex being like rape because it is anal sex is something that a homophobe would do.
No, but consenting to anal sex is something abhorrent to you, and a man who consents to anal sex is a homosexual.
Many of your posts here could be considered racist, especially if I took them out of context. That I could very easily take your posts and make you look like a racist, does that make you one?
He doesn’t like the cis prefix, so gender typical is what he uses to denote that. But, it’s pretty obvious unless you think that gender identity and sexual orientation are the same thing.
You are asking, “What if white males find themselves treated the way that minorities have been treated for generations?” Well, that’d suck for white males, to be quite honest.
A great solution to not having white males retaliated against when whites become a minority is that white males should treat other minorities with the kind of respect that they would like to have themselves.
The problem with oppression is that the oppressed eventually get sick of it, and the oppressors often don’t really like the response to the uprising of the oppressed.
There are two ways of dealing with it, either increase the oppression and do our best to grind any sense of uprising out of the oppressed population, or we could listen to their problems and work to solve them.
The first solution is rarely a final one, and I’m too lazy to go out and dig mass graves, so let’s try the second for a bit, and see how that works out.
My claim was about whether someone’s Hispanic ancestry is easily recognizable to someone who doesn’t know you personally. Often, it is not. That makes it quite different from other ethnic and racial categories, which different consequences for what you can safely assume about a member of that group.
This reporter is clearly a racist and it’s entirely possible she was also being attacked by other racists, assholes tend to attract each other.
The whole white privilege/white fragility thing is also clearly divisive language, if you use a phrase that has an obvious meaning that’s different to the meaning you read in a social research paper that most people haven’t read, it’s probably not a good phrase for regular, non-academic discussion…if you find yourself clarifying it every time you use it, pick another phrase or youre just being deliberately obtuse.
This definition doesn’t make sense to me. Aren’t you talking about “bias” or, more neutral, “tendencies” here?
Bias and tendencies are psychological phenomena; some might have a biological foundation and some could be described as coping processes in an individual’s dealings with the environment, but they exist first and foremost within an individual.
Privilege has an added social component that neither bias nor tendencies show. It is an advantage that is limited to a specific individual or a group but whose presence is constituted within and by society.
A privilege may be socially accepted because it is earned by an individual (merit based) and/or because the function associated with a specific privilege is vital within the existing social structure.
All privileges are social constructs, so they are reinterpreted and renegotiated all the time; and they are - by definition - an agent of inequality. Yet, that doesn’t make them necessarily disadvantageous or unjust. But they can be(come) one or both, especially when they are founded in properties that are beyond an individual’s ability to acquire.