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In reply to the discussion: It's getting weird here....white privilege....rape threads a month ago....it seems a bit much [View all]boston bean
(36,245 posts)178. more false equivalencies.
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It's getting weird here....white privilege....rape threads a month ago....it seems a bit much [View all]
Demonaut
May 2014
OP
From people who don't want DU to be successful and want to get the Democrats fighting one
okaawhatever
May 2014
#1
There are no impersonal gender terms in the English language, unlike in eg. latin languages
Ghost Dog
May 2014
#121
It shouldn't even be necessary....ALL Liberals should agree that White male privilege exists...
VanillaRhapsody
May 2014
#251
From people who think women's and minority issues are worthy of discussion in a liberal forum?
Spider Jerusalem
May 2014
#5
It only "pits one group against another" because people are annoyed at having their complacency
nomorenomore08
May 2014
#15
I don't think discussions regarding equality and civil rights = "pitting one group against another"
LanternWaste
May 2014
#86
How many people (real posters, not trolls) don't think such subjects should be discussed though?
penultimate
May 2014
#8
The problem I've noticed is those always devolve into a pure useless petty argument.
penultimate
May 2014
#12
Part of the problem is how people create false equivalencies, even if perhaps not consciously so
nomorenomore08
May 2014
#16
An honest discussion of privilege can be edifying. Yet another daily lecture from ...
11 Bravo
May 2014
#37
Much as the daily denials of privilege from the "smug, pedantic, self-styled, desperately trendy att
LanternWaste
May 2014
#87
'Six of one, half a dozen of the other' portrays the two views as equally valid.
redqueen
May 2014
#97
In my view, anyone who denies the existence of privilege is far too unserious ...
11 Bravo
May 2014
#219
The words you choose (smug, pedantic, haranguing, etc) and which side you aim them at are revealing.
redqueen
May 2014
#259
Your not using bigoted insults is beside the point. It's nice and all, but beside the point. nt
redqueen
May 2014
#266
Ahh, so I've issued a demand. (Ain't that just like a white dude? Pushy bastards, the lot of them!)
11 Bravo
May 2014
#315
Now you're not even trying. Did you really just accuse me of "seeing something ...
11 Bravo
May 2014
#321
a suggestion is to stop using the word 'white' for a year and see what happens.
Sunlei
May 2014
#328
I did not tell you to go away, I only suggested that if you're looking for "teaching tools", they're
scarletwoman
May 2014
#288
Praise the Lord. But after he told a black poster here to "get a job" when she dared to talk about
Number23
May 2014
#309
The poster in question talks about it here and specifically talks about hurt she was
Number23
May 2014
#334
Thank you. It's sad to me that he was so angry, it was not my intent to bait him.
scarletwoman
May 2014
#312
I'm sorry, but if you want to continue arguing you'll have to pay for another five minutes.
FiveGoodMen
May 2014
#181
Honestly, I think a good chunk of it is probably just people getting frustrated at society, or life.
AverageJoe90
May 2014
#24
how would you feel if people painted you that way for having disgust at that thread on
bettyellen
May 2014
#339
The certain types would paint me that way if it suited their spin as it stands as it is anyway,
Katashi_itto
May 2014
#340
Perhaps because issues of racism and sexism and rape culture are of import to many women
myrna minx
May 2014
#35
The cratering economy has predominantly hit blacks, Latinos and women.
Starry Messenger
May 2014
#54
Generally the same people who anywhere else would clutsh their pearls at the notion of "class"
Scootaloo
May 2014
#161
I know, I've been meaning to start a satirical OP about it, but haven't had the ergs.
Starry Messenger
May 2014
#212
Holy shit. Could have been cut and pasted straight from Free Republic, including the bad spelling.
Number23
May 2014
#291
Why do you think that giving other people rights will take your rights away?
Jamastiene
May 2014
#293
" Lately, "white privilege" is to DU what "Benghazi" is to R's"......you might be right, sadly.
AverageJoe90
May 2014
#323
You're wrong. Minorities outvoted whites in 2012. Put together minorities and white women, and you
Squinch
May 2014
#254
Exactly. Those who think discussions on DU will make white men turn republican are entertaining.
redqueen
May 2014
#261
There are some here who have overtly stated that they won't vote Democratic because of
Squinch
May 2014
#278
A goodly portion of the carnage strewn on the shiny floor of capitalism are women and
Skidmore
May 2014
#81
Probably not best to imply issues important to minority communities are not only secondary
NuclearDem
May 2014
#95
Interesting observation. I hadn't noticed the "Dawn of the Dead" quality of this.
Squinch
May 2014
#255
It certainly seemed coordinated. It's like there's a wedge-of-the-month club
scheming daemons
May 2014
#55
They are if they are issues that divide a group of people who are obstensibly on the same side
scheming daemons
May 2014
#136
Conspiracy talk? Pretty funny coming from someone who was alerted to this grave problem
Sheldon Cooper
May 2014
#167
You are saying that like HoF has ever NOT talked about women's issues. ROFL!
Jamastiene
May 2014
#295
Yes we have. Because we are all powerful. And we are working quietly to take over the world.
Squinch
May 2014
#256
There have *literally* been many threads about white privilege in the past few months
muriel_volestrangler
May 2014
#122
So the very first time you heard of them, you decided to accuse them of disrupting DU
muriel_volestrangler
May 2014
#130
Well, lend your criticism to them. Because it is they who are on the wrong footing.
boston bean
May 2014
#77
True.... but there is a coordinated effort about ONE particular issue this month....
scheming daemons
May 2014
#90
Just tell me what June's wedge-of-the-month issue will be, so I can get a head start
scheming daemons
May 2014
#96
You have been on DU since 2003, I have since 2001 - was there some time period that you can recall
seaglass
May 2014
#141
Scheming - You seem to be making a lot of accusations about the origins of discussions on
seaglass
May 2014
#174
It's just partisan passion minus the intellectual integrity with a big dollop of consumerism.
rrneck
May 2014
#64
Anyone who has been at this board for any length of time understands it is not weird.
NCTraveler
May 2014
#125
I ignore all of them. They are not discussions, they always seem to be battles.
OregonBlue
May 2014
#106
You got flagged for review because you could not control your own self,
Sheldon Cooper
May 2014
#142
You should check your personal attacks at the door. You were hidden for good reason.
PeaceNikki
May 2014
#154
The really strange thing imo, is watching all these old DU accounts suddenly becoming
Rex
May 2014
#135
No, no.... it is completely organic discussion on DU! No coordinated effort at all!
scheming daemons
May 2014
#157
quite a sleuth you are Rex, found me out...please pay more attention to "posts in last 90 days"
Demonaut
May 2014
#175
I get the argument; I just don't see much useful in insisting that the issue of racism...
Comrade Grumpy
May 2014
#303
I admit I haven't read every post on this thread. Was someone making racist comments?
Comrade Grumpy
May 2014
#311
I think we have a bit of the old divide and conquer game going on here. Get something that DUers
jwirr
May 2014
#319