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.
When you say you'd pick the bear over the man or a group of men is a threat, you are saying you'd pick the bear over a Black man and a group of Black men are a threat. It's not changing anything or flipping the genders. All Black men are men. If it sounds racist now, that's because it's always been racist and you didn't realize the implication.
Sure you could freely use your free speech to freely say, "A group of White men are a threat" or "I'd pick a Black man over a bear but a bear over a White man." But you and I and everyone else all know exactly how that sounds. And it's still racist because why do you always think only of White men when you're thinking about an abstract hypothetical man?
When you hear something about men being predatory, you should always think about how that affects Black men or you will inevitably say something racist.
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. itâs 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.
a black woman, along with any race of woman, has every right to say, âi hate all menâ because men are dangerous. you should not seek to control the speech of women when they discuss misogyny, as women are a marginalized group based on sex and subject to sex-specific violence, a universal force that keeps women at the global level under the control of men. when men stop targeting women for sex-based violence, then we can speak on the issue of whether or not saying âall men are ___â leads to racialized thinking. until then, telling women to not disparage men is simply another manifestation of silencing victims and survivors. the fact that you felt this was at all appropriate to write is the perfect demonstration of how misogyny warps thinking to minimize harm to women as mere collateral damage in the rhetoric of political activism.
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.
Lets not forget the femicide rate in the black ass Caribbean and Africa is also high and will regularly be in the top 10 highest femicide rate countries
You people do not see Black women as subjects of oppression or misogyny. Doing PR for Black men is almost more important than the rape, beatings and abuse of Black women.
You people think that everyone lives around white people and that the home is a space place for women and girls
