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The Irish just went full retard - Legalizing gender discrimination
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RE: The Irish just went full retard - Legalizing gender discrimination
(January 17, 2017 at 12:46 pm)CanOfMountainDew Wrote: If you want to have a debate about this I'll gladly accept. Certainly sexism has a historical significance; however it's a fallacy to say that x is true because x has historically been true.

It's not what I said. Also, fallacious and fallacy have different meanings. My point wasn't that it's true because it has been historically true. My point is that it has always been true. Less so now, but it's never gone away.

Quote:As for white men being the least repressed people in the history of ever; that either belies an ignorance of history or an earnest commitment to narrative at the expense of accuracy.

A few things here. When white men have been repressed systematically, it has been by other white men. Moreover, white women have been repressed right along side them, so it's not like white men in particular were singled out. Moreover, white men have dominated the landscape of power for all of time. Sure, you've had your Genghis Khan's and Egyptian pharaohs, but were they repressing white men? And I know someone's going to go ahead and bring up the Holocaust. White men perpetrated it and it targeted a huge range of people, none of the reasons for which were that they were white or male.

Quote:For example right now, in 2017, It is an objective fact that in the US men have less legal rights than women. It is also an objective fact, right now, that in the US that there is legislated affirmative action for certain minorities, thereby giving minorities more legal rights than whites.

Oh, gosh, no. Legal protections from white men are not the same as having more legal rights. The law has basically said "You can't do this anymore." Tough. Also, I'm not a huge fan of affirmative action. I'd like to see the laws rewritten in such a way that they are inclusive, but the very reason they are there is because white men have for centuries refused employment to women and other minorities. We finally hit a point where we are protecting ourselves from that.

I'm not going to sit here and argue for the poor, repressed white man unless you guys want to talk custody battles, family court, etc. Other than that, you guys have it easy and don't know it because you've always had it easy.
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RE: The Irish just went full retard - Legalizing gender discrimination - by Shell B - January 17, 2017 at 1:07 pm

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