RE: So did Atheism + bite the dust?
February 8, 2015 at 12:08 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2015 at 12:12 pm by Regina.)
I think there's an important distinction to make.
Genuine social justice is a good thing, that is to say social justice that is actually put into practice in the real world, actually dealing with racism, homophobia etc etc etc.
I can understand the backlash the tumblrites get though. These are teens with poor social skills who just want to play an online shouting match. As I've said before, it's a glorified pissing contest of "I've had it more tragic than you" that any sensible adult shouldn't take seriously. That's the problem. Social justice has been hijacked by people who want to play minority top trumps and bitch about petty non-issues like "cultural appropriation", rather than dealing with real nasty shit that happens in their everyday life.
There is some victim mentality to it as well, wallowing in self-pity. I know these are people who have experienced a hard time due to sexism, homophobia etc etc. There has to come a point though where you stop blaming everything on other people, pick yourself up, and just do what you can to better your circumstances. As a gay man I had to learn that myself.
With that being said, I can agree I don't like people throwing "feminism" around like it's a dirty word, or making parodies of it with terms like "feminazi".
Genuine social justice is a good thing, that is to say social justice that is actually put into practice in the real world, actually dealing with racism, homophobia etc etc etc.
I can understand the backlash the tumblrites get though. These are teens with poor social skills who just want to play an online shouting match. As I've said before, it's a glorified pissing contest of "I've had it more tragic than you" that any sensible adult shouldn't take seriously. That's the problem. Social justice has been hijacked by people who want to play minority top trumps and bitch about petty non-issues like "cultural appropriation", rather than dealing with real nasty shit that happens in their everyday life.
There is some victim mentality to it as well, wallowing in self-pity. I know these are people who have experienced a hard time due to sexism, homophobia etc etc. There has to come a point though where you stop blaming everything on other people, pick yourself up, and just do what you can to better your circumstances. As a gay man I had to learn that myself.
With that being said, I can agree I don't like people throwing "feminism" around like it's a dirty word, or making parodies of it with terms like "feminazi".
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie