AlDente ,

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." - Malcolm X

TheAnonymouseJoker ,

The downvotes. Oh no.

davel ,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

crackers are still flagging this post lmayo

davel ,
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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: racism

Good luck with that, reporter.

madcaesar ,

Yes! Let's beat hate, by hating a different group......

shuzuko ,

Pointing out their whinging is hardly hate. Way to be a perfect example of the post, whether you're a white dude or not.

madcaesar ,

"their" whining. Right, I'm the asshole for not liking language lumping a whole group of people into a bucket.

If you are ok with demonizing language like that, that's on you. I want nothing to do with it.

shuzuko ,

You know, I really, really think you're reading something into this that isn't there. What, exactly, strikes you as hate here? What in this meme is "demonizing language"? It's a joke pointing out that privileged people tend to panic and lash out when the people who have historically had fewer privileges than them start receiving help to level the playing field, as if life is some kind of zero-sum game and others being treated better suddenly means they'll get treated worse. This is a well-recognized truth that applies broadly across privileged populations and has been remarked upon by many people through the years of building civil liberties for minorities of all stripes, and this meme is just poking a bit of fun at it. No one thinks that literally every single cishet white dude is panicking that they'll be up against the wall if minorities ask to be treated better. I'm really confused at your apparently visceral reaction against this so-called "hate".

Toneswirly ,

Equal rights are a threat to hegemony. Losing hegemony is scary for the privileged, as it is status quo.

rowrowrowyourboat ,

Yes, let's fight prejudice by stereotyping a whole race, gender, and sexual orientation...

Anticorp ,

It's concerning how much support these types of statements get.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

--Dr. Martin Luther King Junior

Jtotheb ,

MLK Jr., famous for talking about how much he loves white moderates right

nomous ,

MLK Jr, the guy that has that one quote about white moderates that gets paraded around constantly while 90% of his other words are completely ignored.

swag_money ,

oh god this feels like Reddit all over again. they're not hunting you! i promise

psud ,

The men who are worried about being hunted for sport have been told too many times that that's what should happen to them

InputZero ,

I mean, if it did happen, would that be the worst thing?

Jax ,

I knew Lemmy was a good place, and then the sealab memes came.

Now it's better.

KingThrillgore ,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Yes Stormy, we're gonna hunt you for sport. You and the rest of the Pod 6 jerks.

bartolomeo ,
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It's funny because extending rights to marginalized people does not by any means diminish the rights of the privileged.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

-Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States

anytimesoon ,

The point should be to bring everyone up, not pull others down, though

tacosanonymous ,

That’s impossible since the point was a superficial elevation of their own interests.

Unless you think the point of feminism (for example) is to make men second class citizens. That’s just not a thing. It’s a rhetoric created by assholes to get ignorant people on board with their continued grossness.

galoisghost ,
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There aren’t a limited amount of rights that can only be handed out to be shared amongst people.

There are just rights and everyone should be entitled to them.

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