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Any time you say something about men being inherently predatory (man vs bear, a group of men is a threat, etc.) you are being racist. Treating men as inherently predatory is fundamentally inseparable from anti-blackness because Black men are hypermasculinized. That rhetoric affects Black men the most.

framing black men in this way (as victims who could never hurt a woman) is an interesting choice when western black women are currently in the midst of a yearslong femicide crisis. said femicide (and rape, and abuse) is committed almost entirely by black men who, as men, are indeed dangerous. your rhetoric frames the modern issue of black femicide as inherently less important than the historical issue of black men being wrongfully accused of sex crimes. it suggests that black women should shut up about their negative experiences with men out of a kind of race fealty. it’s despicable because black women are indeed incredibly race loyal and suffer in silence from the physical, material harm inflicted on them by black men as well as the psychological warfare of being subjected to constant, intense misogynoir within the community and also outside of it. black cultures, like all cultures, are rooted in patriarchy. the logic of this post is a particularly ugly and blunt example of what afro-patriarchy looks like.

Rhetoric like this is how the black power movement shamed black women who were raped and sexually abused by Black men in the movement to stay silent or they're race traitors. 30 to 60% of all black women in America are victims of sexual assault. Many Black male predators in the black power movement knowing this, used this to have a captive stock of victims who were too scared to speak because black men are seen as violent.