Everyday Propaganda

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I was actually Googling for feminism today, just to see how it defines itself and how it's proponents conduct themselves and if there is any disparity between the two (there is) when I happened across the everyday feminism website. To give you a clue as to the content here are some of the headlines:

• 4 Questions to Ask the Pro-Science, Anti-Feminist Advocates in Your Life
• 6 Common Expressions That Uphold Rape Culture and Objectify Women
• The Feminist Guide to Flirting Respectfully With Women of Color
• Dear Men: Toxic Masculinity Is Imprisoning Us, and It’s Time to Set Ourselves Free

I can see this site is going to be a goldmine of bullshit and propaganda. I'm certain to write a few more rants about it when I can find the time, but I happened across this article and just had to rant.
For the purposes of this rant, the text quoted from the linked page will be written in this colour. 
 

10 Defensive Reactions to White Privilege That Make No Damn Sense – But Are Super Common

1. ‘You’re the Real Racist for Talking About Race’

"We have Group A: People like Dylann Roof, violent racists who fantasize about and commit violence against people of color.

We have Group B: People who don’t believe they hold racist views, but who are complicit in the system of white supremacy because they don’t do anything to stop it.

But instead of those two groups, you want to blame Group C, the people who are naming what’s happening and trying to put a stop to it, for causing racism?"

Group A does exist. People like the KKK who harbour resentment for other people based solely on their skin colour. Arguably also intersectional feminists, although I don't think they've ever directly killed anybody. Yet.

Group B is where the problem lies. The author asserts "complicit in a system of white supremacy" but provides no evidence to backup the assertion that a "system of white supremacy" exists, or that there are people who don't believe that they hold racist views but that are complicit in such a system(although it does actually provide some evidence that there are people that hold racist viewpoints but who maintain that they aren't: intersectional feminists). This is why feminism is a faith based ideology, and it being based on faith as opposed to logic, reason and evidence is a fundamental flaw.

2. ‘Just Don’t Talk About Racism and It’ll Go Away’

I don't think anybody with any common sense advocates the approach of ignoring a problem and it will go away. I'm sure people used to, after all that's how we ended up with university faculties full of Marxist intersectional feminists preaching their propaganda to impressionable minds that don't know any better than to drink the koolaid, but I hope people have since learned that ignoring a problem is a bad idea.

However constantly looking for a problem, such as racism, will only result in finding it. Some of it will be legitimate, but in much greater regularity than under normal circumstance (if you doubt this try Googling for an innocuous term and recording the percentage of porn sites that appear in the results, then Google for a porn term and do the same thing) and some of it will just be Confirmation bias. 

3. ‘I Don’t Have This Experience, So It Must Not Be True’

"Are you noticing a pattern? These responses silence people of color and prioritize white folks’ voices as more important."

Oh really? Let me share an anecdote from someone I know. She was actually talking to me about racism once a few years ago, and her experiences of it as a mixed race woman. She said that she has never experienced racism, but that she did have a friend at college who was very much into feminism and who claimed she experienced racism all day every day.

So here we have 2 people, both female, both mixed race, both the same age, in the same environment, but the one just gets on with things and doesn't experience racism whereas the one that goes looking for racism in everything manages to find it.

Essentially I'm reiterating the point I made above, that if you go searching for something you're going to find it.

4. ‘I Don’t Understand This, So It Must Not Be True’

Only the deliberately ignorant would make such a statement. I'm not saying that there aren't people like this on the outside of feminism, but there's definitely plenty on the inside. Just find any video with people who aren't a feminist trying to use feminists own reasoning against them and you will find that the feminists feign ignorance to avoid answering the question.

5. ‘But I’m Not a Bad Person’

"Look, I’m sure you’re swell. Now that I’ve acknowledged this, can we move on to what white privilege is really about? Because it has nothing to do with judging your character."

This is why intersectional feminism is divisive, racist, sexist, bigoted, and all the things they claim to be against. It doesn't matter that you're a genuinely good person, it doesn't matter if you do volunteer work, donate or raise money for charity, because if you happen to be white then you're benefiting from `white privilege`(even if you're having to work 2 jobs for minimum wage just to get by) and that makes everything your fault.

On the other hand if you spend all day smoking weed and sitting on your arse, blaming everybody else for your problems whilst waiting around for your next benefits payment, but also happen to be a disabled transgender homosexual black woman, then you are flawless.

6. ‘I Never Enslaved or Colonized Anyone, So White Privilege Has Nothing to Do With Me’

"If your idea of “freedom” includes being able to oppress other people, then we’ve got bigger problems. Anti-racism is about fighting for liberation – for all of us to be free to be who we are."

The lack of self reflection here is astounding. The author is arguing that anti-racism is about freedom `to be who we are`, but simultaneously promoting an ideology that oppresses and demonises one group of people based solely on their skin colour. Utterly shameless. 

7. ‘I Know an Exception to the Rule’ (Or ‘My Black Friend Said Something Different’)

"I have to wonder what white privilege deniers would do if they didn’t have Barack Obama or Oprah Winfrey to point to. Maybe they’d have to realize the realities of everyday Black folks can’t be invalidated by just two people?"

What about virtually the entirety of the NBA? What about all the black musicians, actors, sportspeople, business people, and people in various other jobs that aren't celebrities or multimillionaires but still do just fine? Do they all sit on their arses complaining about racism (well, some in the entertainment industry do every time something doesn't go their way) or do they just get on with the task at hand?

And what about all the other racial groups? The author refers to herself as a "queer Black woman". Is that why her article is only concerned about black people? Is that not a little racist and self-serving?

8. ‘Aren’t There More Important Things to Worry About?’

This is just a non point. The author defends her whining about alleged `microaggressions` by saying that anyone saying they don't matter is "disgustingly insensitive". Perpetually offended professional victims whining about insensitivity to a problem that to any reasonable person does not exist is not something I can even be bothered to rant about any further.

9. ‘You’re Too Angry About This’

"Is there really such a thing as “too angry” about issues of oppression?"

There is when you've not demonstrated that such oppressions actually exists. Maybe if you were to actually articulate and provide evidence for the alleged oppression in a calm and thoughtful manner people would not feel the need to tell you to calm down. I have to question what it is about the authors conduct that causes so many people to tell her to calm down with such regularity that she felt the need to include it here.

10. ‘There’s No Such Thing as Race’ (Or ‘I Don’t See Color’)

"Related to this is the claim that you “don’t see color.” There are lots of problems with the colorblind approach, and one of them is that it fails to recognize the reality we’re living in."

No, it does not recognise your narrative because you have not met the burden of proof.

Again, your self-proclaimed ideals about anti-racism and allowing people to be who they are without oppression is shown to be a total fabrication by your actual conduct. You cannot demonise one group based solely on race and then claim that you're against racism. The levels of hypocrisy exhibited by intersectional feminists are almost beyond belief.

There was once a very famous speech given by Martin Luther King Jr in which he stated that he had a dream. That one day his children would be judged by the content of their character, by who they are as people, and not by the colour of their skin. It seems to me that some people need to go back and listen to that speech.