There’s a Flaw in Your Argumentation
History is made every second of every day. Every second that passes is added to the history books. And while not every person will be documented, nor even every event will make it into the pages of history, the way society runs always will. So when you say “(white people and/or men) have had x privileges and therefore can be ignored in issue y”, the only proper response would be to say you are wrong. Even if you were correct, which you aren’t (and I will make a post at a later date going further into that claim), ignoring a group based on characteristics is wrong. Worse yet, actively working against them will set them in a place that is worse than where they started.Â
The terms “mansplaining”, “manterrupting”, “manslamming”, so on and so forth, are going to negatively impact men. These terms are inadequate, as more realistically you can just use the nongendered terms “patronizing”, “interrupting”, and “bumping into someone on accident.” These things won’t just disappear when some so called equality is reached, it will continue on past it. Just as Jews were always depicted as oppressing the German people even through the Holocaust, so to will some people continue to harp on men even after some ill defined equality is met. Not saying these two things are comparable in anything other than the types of propaganda that are employed, obviously the Holocaust was one of the greatest tragedies to ever happen on this planet. It was just the first thing that came to mind (probably due to the fact that tragedies stick in your mind easy).Â
My point is, you can’t reach equality by pushing others down. Not everyone will end up with the same as their neighbor, and forcing others down will only drag society down. Removing barriers that get in the way of success is so much more important and efficient. The world will never be perfect, but we could at least try to do our best to make it a good place to live. We have come a long way. Heck, I see the obesity epidemic as, in a way, a positive. For the entirety of human history, we starved to death by the tens of thousands, by the hundreds of thousands. Perhaps I should also make a post discussing the topic of decadence and the downfall of Western societies sometime soon.Â
