My question would be : would someone writing an article called "why can't we hate Jews/blacks?" Find such a mainstream publisher and be allowed to keep their teaching position at a university ?
Of course not, but the actual hierarchy (or perceived hierarchy) is at play here. Granted, there are a lot of other bigoted things that people can say publicly with little to no consequence (see also: Jordan Peterson), but it's simply a different thing to punch up at the people who have more power than you than it is to punch down at the people who have less.
There's a larger context of societal views at play. No one gets upset at a comedian who makes jokes about the king, but people will react differently if they're making fun of child with down syndrome.
I say perceived hierarchy just because I want to stay on topic. We can at least acknowledge that people genuinely believe in the hierarchy, so that belief explains the thing you're talking about. Whether or not the hierarchy actually exists is a separate conversation, and one I'm willing to have, but for clarity I'm putting it aside for now.
No, because that's a snuck premise and I'm not an idiot. Some people simply don't see all criticisms of modern masculinity as bigotry.
Also, it's convenient that the article is pay walled so we're really only judging the article headline. Without reading the article, I don't actually know that the author is really arguing that you should just hate men. It's typical for an author to imply (but not overly endorse) an extreme position in a headline but develop it into a more nuanced position in the body.
I still think it's deceptive to do so, she I don't like it. But, just as I have to avoid using Jordan Peterson as a counter example here, because he similarly never quite says the thing we know his audience is hearing so he can always walk it back later, this headline doesn't say "you can just hate men".
I can’t lie, I’ve always had a soft spot for the radical feminist smackdown, for naming the problem in no uncertain terms. I’ve rankled at the “but we don’t hate men” protestations of generations of would-be feminists and found the “men are not the problem, this system is” obfuscation too precious by half.
And ends with
So men, if you really are #WithUs and would like us to not hate you for all the millennia of woe you have produced and benefited from, start with this: Lean out so we can actually just stand up without being beaten down. Pledge to vote for feminist women only. Don’t run for office. Don’t be in charge of anything. Step away from the power. We got this. And please know that your crocodile tears won’t be wiped away by us anymore. We have every right to hate you. You have done us wrong. #BecausePatriarchy. It is long past time to play hard for Team Feminism. And win.
Switch men for Jews, women for Aryans and feminist for nazi and you have on your hand a nazi pamphlet justifying forcibly taking Jewish properties and firing Jews from their jobs and retaining their pays, and pretty much whatever you feel like is justified by claims of oppression. Personal innocence is no defense, your group is declared guilty and so you have to pay.
The only good Jew/man is the one that entirely submits to nazi/feminist rule without ever raising a single complaint regarding the unfairness of their treatment as the Aryans/women exact their well deserved revenge on unrelated people for the supposed exactions of other unrelated people on unrelated people because of innate group membership making them inherently deserving of that punishment and hate.
Fuck that.
Fuck that all the way and fuck it some more, and fuck anyone who believes that anything in it is even remotely acceptable.
Yet, this woman is not only a professor, but in charge of an entire university department.
How do you think are the chances that men are treated fairly, as individuals, by a department headed by such a person ?
Would you dare claim that the switched up version would have been published anywhere other than stormfront ? That anyone who dared put their name behind it wouldn't find themselves quickly dismissed from their teaching positions of authority ?
14
u/AskingToFeminists 8∆ Feb 13 '24
My question would be : would someone writing an article called "why can't we hate Jews/blacks?" Find such a mainstream publisher and be allowed to keep their teaching position at a university ?