01-20-2017, 04:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-20-2017, 06:54 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Well, true enough that there are extremists on the left that go too far into saying that "all men are bad", or from a racial context that "all white people are bad". But, you'd have to search far and wide to find these kinds of people. The folks in the Chicago incident are a tiny minority, yet people like Ashock will use such things as political opportunity.
For instance, someone such as Valerie Solanas is one such over-the-top individual. Basically, her intense hatred of patriarchy made her desire not just equality for women as part of the goal for leftists, but for the actual supreme domination of women over men. It's hard to call her leftist, since she is basically advocating for the extermination and enslavement of all males and a femme-fascist society or something like it. I am all for the abolishment of capitalism and the patriarchy that comes along with it. But for the abolishment of males as persons, as a whole? Yea, this is inconceivably over the top. It was like it was almost personal for her, a manifesto for revenge, rather than the genuine liberation and realization of self-determination for her collective sex. Even my fiance, who is a radical feminist, thinks her politics are nutty.
The same ofc is true for race. Not all white people are racist, far from it. All are privileged though, and its a matter of us recognizing our privilege and taking steps to achieve equality, rather than trying to hold on to our privilege as many of them do.
For instance, someone such as Valerie Solanas is one such over-the-top individual. Basically, her intense hatred of patriarchy made her desire not just equality for women as part of the goal for leftists, but for the actual supreme domination of women over men. It's hard to call her leftist, since she is basically advocating for the extermination and enslavement of all males and a femme-fascist society or something like it. I am all for the abolishment of capitalism and the patriarchy that comes along with it. But for the abolishment of males as persons, as a whole? Yea, this is inconceivably over the top. It was like it was almost personal for her, a manifesto for revenge, rather than the genuine liberation and realization of self-determination for her collective sex. Even my fiance, who is a radical feminist, thinks her politics are nutty.
The same ofc is true for race. Not all white people are racist, far from it. All are privileged though, and its a matter of us recognizing our privilege and taking steps to achieve equality, rather than trying to hold on to our privilege as many of them do.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)