White Male Progressives: the terrible pestilent scourge on our otherwise great nation

[mhatrw]

There is but one clear and present danger to our great nation, and that ever mounting threat is white male progressives.

These sexist, racist cretins who desperately want single payer healthcare, education debt relief, and living wages for all Americans are destroying the very fabric of our otherwise exemplary political landscape.

These insensitive louts who keep loudly and aggressively arguing in favor of military and prison budget cuts and better social safety nets are threatening everything we hold dear.

These blowhards who paternalistically rail against the corrosive and corrupting effects of historic wealth inequality and unlimited corporate political influence will be the death of us all!

OK, so they hate war and excessive corporate greed and social injustice and gender discrimination just as you do, but the way they state their objections just drips with white male entitlement!

Of course, they are just as angry about child poverty, lack of paid family leave, police brutality, abortion rights rollbacks, terrible trades agreements, corrupt corporate welfare, and ever-accelerating environmental destruction as you are, but their teeming white maleness is ruining being against these things for the rest of us!

Sure, you don't disagree with anything they say, but what about the insensitive, arrogant way they keep saying it? Isn't that all that really matters?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Does this help?

Anything?

[mhatrw]

3. Did "A Modest Proposal" help anything?

That is a largely unanswerable philosophical question.

[kristopher]

18. Wanna share it to FB?

[mhatrw]

22. sure nt

[Bread and Circus]

5. It made me snicker. The sarcasm has a ring of truth it cuts to...

[joshcryer]

10. It helps build a robust ignore list.

[bluestateguy]

2. I know you are being sarcastic here

But there is a serious lesson here, and that is that if other progressives mock, intimidate and insult white male progressives, don't be surprised if they become white male conservatives.

And white male conservatives are far worse.

[Cali_Democrat]

12. So what your saying is if female or minority progressives insult white male progressives...

those white male progressives will become conservatives?

Who are you referring to when you say "other progressives?"

[Nonhlanhla]

16. Then they were conservatives all along

If a little bit of criticism of lingering prejudice and conservatism in white male progressives is all it takes to turn them into full-blown conservatives, then their progressivism is after all only skin deep. In fact, then they were conservatives all along.

I don't think most are - my point is just that any white male progressive that is so easily switched was never really progressive.

[kristopher]

19. You aren't very good at reading sarcasm, are you??

[guillaumeb]

4. Somewhat sarcastic, but a very valid point.

But I AM a white,male progressive. With socialist tendencies.

I just realized that if you changed it to white, ignorant, male, progressive the acronym would be:
WIMP.

Just a thought.

[dsc]

6. yes because we all know that the biggest problem in America is racism and sexism

directed against those of us who are white males.

[mhatrw]

7. I'd say the bigger problem is the minority of white males who

understand that they benefit from both white and male privilege yet still fight for a more egalitarian society because of their sense of fairness.

Those guys are the real problem.

[kristopher]

20. I think it's great. nt

[mhatrw]

8. On second thought, it is not just the entitled way white male progressives state their beliefs

that ruins our otherwise great nation.

It's the fact that they actually feel entitled to try to malesplain, whitesplain, and brosplain their progressive ideals and sentiments to others.

That's what really ruins everything for everyone!

[Doctor_J]

9. This post should be at the new hate site, or in one of the protected group here

There it would be taken seriously.

[NuclearDem]

11. Holding those beliefs isn't the problem.

Neither is being white or male.

Going on vile, racist tirades against black protestors and berating civil rights icons for the crime of not endorsing your candidate, on the other hand, are very serious problems that shouldn't be waved off with smarmy, whiney attempts at satire.

Surprisingly, you're not helping your case by claiming to be the victim when you are, in fact, the victimizer. Doing it in such a tone deaf, whiney manner only serves to rub salt into the wound.

Those are the actual reasons people complain about the behaviors of certain white male progressives. Your OP is nothing but whiney strawman bullshit.

[lovemydog]

14. +1

[mhatrw]

23. Yeah, my personality is admittedly imperfect.

But at least I am not a victim of imagining that those who wholly agree with me are somehow my mortal enemies.

[RobertEarl]

13. My gawd

The hate for WM progressives is deep.

Here you mock the whiners that complain that WM progressives are not perfect and from what I see some whiners surface and think you are speaking for them. Amazing!!

[cherokeeprogressive]

15. This post hit the ground so hard; I'm afraid it may have created a mine shaft.

The book "The Right Stuff" makes references to "smokin' holes" and "auguring in" in the context of flying an airplane into the ground.

This plane hit the ground at light speed.

So some would say.

[lovemydog]

17. No, the insensitive, arrogant way they keep saying it

isn't all that really matters. But it can make DU suck at times.

Try reading some of the groups here. You may learn about it if you approach it with an open mind.

Better read, read some history. Those policy views have been around since before you or I were born. White male progressives in the present day didn't invent them. Though they sometimes act like they did.

[mhatrw]

24. I truly believe that most people are good at heart.

However, many in power profit handsomely from setting good people against one another.

[artislife]

21. Heh

Wow...you have been hit with a serious amount of


Lack of humor


This is a very sad state of affairs.

Loved the OP!