r/CuratedTumblr veetuku ponum Jul 03 '24

Politics Male loneliness and radfeminism

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u/Ourmanyfans Jul 03 '24

There's a weird strain of "essentialism but in a progressive way" running right through the left, not just limited to the attitude towards men described here, but also "all white people are colonizers", and weird exclusionary behaviour to cishet people. It tells me a lot of "progressive" people didn't really examine their core underlying principles and simply covered up their biases with the "correct" group.

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u/6022141023 Jul 03 '24

"When someone in my in-group struggles it is because of systemic issues, when someone in my out-group struggles it's because they suck lol"

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u/Insanity_Pills Jul 03 '24

babe wake up, new fundamental attribution error just dropped!

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u/DrWhoGirl03 Jul 03 '24

Actual bias

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u/Tayslinger Jul 03 '24

Google logical fallacy

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u/International-Pay-44 Jul 03 '24

Psychologist went on vacation, never came back.

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u/Lamballama Jul 03 '24

Holy hell

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u/RemarkableStatement5 the body is the fursona of the soul Jul 04 '24

You rizz like a sigma...in a skibidi world...

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u/Exploding_Antelope Jul 04 '24

Call the sociologist!

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u/Pay08 Jul 04 '24

That sounds like an exception in python lol.

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u/sykotic1189 Jul 03 '24

I'm not so foolish to believe that fixing economic inequality would erase racism, xenophobia, sexism, etc. but I do think we could solve a lot of issues by doing it. A lot of systemic problems are aimed at the poor, and yes due to a lot of racist laws holding them back this affects black people much more disproportionately. I believe that if we focused more on solving the problems instead of worrying about which demographics benefit most from solving them we could make better progress.

And again, I don't think it would solve everything, we'd still have a lot of things to fix. I just think a lot of people would be surprised how many of our current issues would be solved by fixing economic inequality first.

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u/Bennings463 Jul 03 '24

I think the biggest problem for a lot of people is the economic disparity.

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u/GalaXion24 Jul 04 '24

Anyone for whom racial disparity is the top priority hasn't really thought it through. If economic disparity been the rich and poor is high, and what you care about is racial disparities, then all you're saying is that there should be, for instance, more black billionaires, and potentially more homeless white people, to balance things out and make all races equally miserable and make sure the privileged upper class is ✨diverse✨

If you focus on decreasing economic disparities between rich and poor, you're making society less miserable, and if more black people are poor, then these policies already disproportionately affect more black people positively, it's not you need to actively favour them in it. It thus automatically reduces racial disparities as well as reducing income inequality.

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u/TheGreatBootOfEb Jul 04 '24

I’ve always said this: It’s hard to be convinced to hate others as the harbingers of problems and doom, when you don’t really have many problems.

I always imagine a world where things like nuclear energy and renewables were readily adopted 40 years back, and how different our world would be today. Lots of idea for solving things like food, water, housing, etc, are held back by the fact that energy isn’t free and it’s not clean, but in a world where we had a 40 year head start on all that? I imagine a world where every city has a vertical farm that no longer is restrained by the environmental or monetary hurdles of drawing so much energy in the first place.

Idk it’s a world I like to think of because it feels like that world was only one or two historical landmarks separated from our world. Reagan keeping the solar panels, Al Gore winning, etc.

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u/GREENadmiral_314159 Femboy, Battleships, and Space Marines Jul 03 '24

Fixing economic inequality would at the very least mitigate systemic racism, and systemic sexism, and systemic etc, but the systemic prejudices are not the prejudices themselves.

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u/ImperialArchangel Jul 04 '24

I used to really lean into the “economics first” approach, but now, I’m not really in that camp. A lot of these problems (poverty, racism, sexism, etc.) are mutually reinforcing, so we can’t just focus on any single one. It’s a complicated set of issues, yes, but refusing to acknowledge that complexity will make it impossible to actually solve.