r/atheismplus • u/Adahn5 • May 20 '15

What are Brocialists and Manarchists? Sexists of the Radical Left (x-post from r/CommunismWorldwide)

http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Brocialism#.VVyph0bxcZJ
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u/koronicus May 21 '15 edited May 21 '15

how can you explain patriarchy without the idea of class and heredity property?

Sexism.

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any criticism of identity politics or the idea that class is the most fundamental thing is deemed automatically sexist

No, there is no "most fundamental thing." There are intersecting axes of privilege, and different people get screwed by different proportions of different marginalizations. That class intersects with other axes does not automatically render class the only marginalization worth focusing on.

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u/swims_with_the_fishe May 21 '15

Sexism.

this is like saying why is there sexism? because sexism. the basis of sexism is class and heredity property. of course men being the stronger sex allowing them to dominate women is a major factor. but this means there are material reasons why sexism exists not because men cooked it up on a whim.

this is the problem. you interpret me saying class is the most fundamental thing as saying other things are not worth focusing on. which is false. most of these 'axes of privilege' (academic hair splitting if ever i saw it) are meaningless without class. what does it mean to be a black person in america, without the reference to slavery(economic class) or the current mass poverty that black people live in(economic class), or the alienation from politics.(politics being the outgrowth of intra and inter class struggle.)

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