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Video Clip: Questions White Men Have For SJW's
Member Since: 6/13/2012
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Originally posted by Gossamer™
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Unlike Blacklivesmatter, Martin Luther King promoted peace not violence. Also, I would rather listen to them than listen to someone that says "black on black crime isn't a thing."
If they are spew rhetoric like "All white people are racist", "All men are misogynist" etc. and post it to youtube, people have the right to respond. Just like if a pastor says "all gays are perverts" gays would be upset and wanting to respond. It's the same thing
That's classism.
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Then you clearly don't know **** about dr King. That's why I wish y'all would stop referencing him without actually knowing his work and what he stood for. Just spewing the same racist rhetoric over and over.
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Originally posted by Hi_im_new
Then you clearly don't know **** about dr King. That's why I wish y'all would stop referencing him without actually knowing his work and what he stood for. Just spewing the same racist rhetoric over and over.
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What did he want?
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Member Since: 6/13/2012
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Originally posted by Gossamer™
What did he want?
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He wanted white america to acknowledge their complacency in regards to brutality and social inequality towards black people. And that the violence, riots, etc that was taking place during that time was a result of this complacency.
I suggest you look up his 1967 apa convention speech to fully gauge his thoughts on rioting & violence in response to racial injustice.
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a lot of truth tea. just too bad the video was full of neck beards. i would join in such a video, but I fear death threats.
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Member Since: 8/12/2012
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Originally posted by Obsession
1) If there are minorities who don't agree with their communities' viewpoints on issues, I'm pretty sure they can speak for themselves. As white men who hold a significant amount of white privilege, why is your first line of defense against minorities speaking being that other minorities are speaking? You try to silence us all anyways.
2) Calling Islam the world's most misogynistic ideology is pretty laughable given that the American Dream is literally a working man, his homemaker and two kids - so we're not even gonna start as far as THAT goes. Islam has some dodgy teachings but so has every religion and wanting to ensure people of Islam aren't prejudiced against for their beliefs doesn't not automatically qualify you as a rape apologist. Islamic people are not all racists by default.
3) Okay, so supposedly we have this concept of the police protecting the public in the United States but we're still going to sit down here and say women want to be a "protected class and they should be held accountable for their own safety" whenever women wear supposedly sexual clothing. I'm pretty sure we rely on people not to murder each other, we can rely on people not to rape each other either...if not, then by this definition, we're ALL part of the "protected class" and logically, that would conclude that there is in fact no protected class.
4) What are we afraid of when we leave our safe spaces? We'll be shot in the streets, our sexual orientations/gender issues will be criminalized or we'll be raped...as United States history has consistently done throughout its entire history.
5) It's racist to slam BLM because there is currently no history of black people ever relying on their privilege to legalize crimes against the white community. The system in America is inherently built against POCs so there is little chance black people could ever instigated genocide against white people (whereas the inverse is not the same) and this country currently does not have a general problem with black members of authority using their positions to murder white people. When a black person says they wish all white people were dead, they're likely speaking from a place of hurt...and either way, the system in America generally ensures this will never be the case.
6) That whole soliloquy of claiming minorities and women are using the past to justify their positions of today is ridiculous, because those problems of yesteryear have not magically disappeared and it's not up to you to decide things are okay and equal for the people you once oppressed. If these people are all coming up to speak against issues perpetrated against them, they are likely not fabricating them. #AllLivesMatter was intentionally created to obscure the message of #BlackLivesMatter - all lives do matter but since we currently live in a place where black lives do NOT matter, we need to rectify that situation first before we start worrying about all the other people who are currently NOT at risk for being "justifiably" murdered by the system.
7) By making this video, you did the exact same attention grabbing you accused SJWs of doing. Congratulations.
8) If a woman sleeps with a drunken man, it's rape. I don't know that this actually an issue in circles but it's rape if someone is drunk and they can't willingly give consent, it doesn't really change based on gender. So if there's actually contention, I'll agree that there shouldn't be any contention on this issue - though I haven't really SEEN contention on this issue and it's probably manufactured for this video.
9) No...but congratulations on slipping that racist "n____" slur in the video WITHOUT singing any rap music. You demonstrate your own racism and stupidity.
10) Okay, but why does it bother you so much if someone thinks they're male AND female at the same time or whatever? Like let people live their own lives, it literally does nothing to you to do so. Also, there is no real problem with white men having a voice, they literally have a voice in everything - if you're worried about your voice diminishing, yes it probably will diminish because you've enjoyed speaking at a volume of 80% when you should've been speaking at a volume of 20% - instead of pushing everyone else to about 4% to justify your 80%. So when you reach that level, everything will be fine.
11) When a woman dresses in public in a sexual manner, they do so of their own free will and in celebration of their own sexuality. When a woman is dressed provocatively in video games, it is purely to satisfy the male gaze, especially since most of the time they are designed by MALE video game designers. They're dressed to satisfy the sexual appetites of men, they are not real people deciding to embrace their own sexuality. And sure, they could be doing so in the scope of the video game...except you know, there's never really any reference to that whatsoever in these video games.
12) My favorite song when people present me with a different POV is usually "I'd Like to Teach The World to Sing" - that Coke ad really sold a message of peace we'll never get...sigh, Coke. Different points of view are always welcome because they give color to a world that would be extraordinarily dull if we were all the same...but that doesn't give you the license to make the world a harder place for other people or to be an asshole. The whole statement that "When I talk, I have a superior opinion" is LITERALLY the definition of ignoring other POVs to solely focus on yours - so there's pretty good evidence you actually don't care about other opinions.
13) You know what, I'm actually not a fan of when anyone discriminates against someone because of their racism...but since the whole concept of race and racism was invented by white people and used against people of different "races", the term reverse racism can stick around. #SorryNotSorry
14) You can't remember pronouns but you respect people's names, right? If people ask you to call them Billy Joe Bob Candy Cane, just call them Billy Joe Bob Candy Cane. Why do you need to make people's lives difficult and hurt their feelings just because they wanna be Billy Joe Bob Candy Cane?
15) Artists should enjoy freedom of speech...but that doesn't give them license to hate speech. If artists enjoy success on the back of continuing oppression against minorities and women, they should be called out on it. Also, you say people devalue the terms racism and sexism by flinging them around but your entire video thus far has been debating whether they exist.
Also, good job on including bleach at the end of your video...because the only way POCs could ever hope to find a world where these views work for them is by bleaching their skin.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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I only agree with the question about SJWs trying to censor artists, most of the others were cringe-worthy
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First off, the Amazing Atheist is a disgusting human being and he's literally the poster boy for pseudo-intelligence on the internet
Apply those rational thinking skills you supposedly used to unpack your beliefs about government and religion in society and go a step further, like damn
Anyway, I watched it begrudgingly and there were no good questions to me. I hate to just say "Educate yourself!", but Educate yourselves
It's not my job as an informed minority to educate people who are ignorant, but honestly people like this aren't worth the time and prefer to live in echo chambers. If I took the time out of my day to explain the answer to the numerous questions (like Obsession so flawlessly did ) to naysayers who would just dismiss it anyway, I'd never get anything done.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Originally posted by Obsession
1) If there are minorities who don't agree with their communities' viewpoints on issues, I'm pretty sure they can speak for themselves. As white men who hold a significant amount of white privilege, why is your first line of defense against minorities speaking being that other minorities are speaking? You try to silence us all anyways.
2) Calling Islam the world's most misogynistic ideology is pretty laughable given that the American Dream is literally a working man, his homemaker and two kids - so we're not even gonna start as far as THAT goes. Islam has some dodgy teachings but so has every religion and wanting to ensure people of Islam aren't prejudiced against for their beliefs doesn't not automatically qualify you as a rape apologist. Islamic people are not all racists by default.
3) Okay, so supposedly we have this concept of the police protecting the public in the United States but we're still going to sit down here and say women want to be a "protected class and they should be held accountable for their own safety" whenever women wear supposedly sexual clothing. I'm pretty sure we rely on people not to murder each other, we can rely on people not to rape each other either...if not, then by this definition, we're ALL part of the "protected class" and logically, that would conclude that there is in fact no protected class.
4) What are we afraid of when we leave our safe spaces? We'll be shot in the streets, our sexual orientations/gender issues will be criminalized or we'll be raped...as United States history has consistently done throughout its entire history.
5) It's racist to slam BLM because there is currently no history of black people ever relying on their privilege to legalize crimes against the white community. The system in America is inherently built against POCs so there is little chance black people could ever instigated genocide against white people (whereas the inverse is not the same) and this country currently does not have a general problem with black members of authority using their positions to murder white people. When a black person says they wish all white people were dead, they're likely speaking from a place of hurt...and either way, the system in America generally ensures this will never be the case.
6) That whole soliloquy of claiming minorities and women are using the past to justify their positions of today is ridiculous, because those problems of yesteryear have not magically disappeared and it's not up to you to decide things are okay and equal for the people you once oppressed. If these people are all coming up to speak against issues perpetrated against them, they are likely not fabricating them. #AllLivesMatter was intentionally created to obscure the message of #BlackLivesMatter - all lives do matter but since we currently live in a place where black lives do NOT matter, we need to rectify that situation first before we start worrying about all the other people who are currently NOT at risk for being "justifiably" murdered by the system.
7) By making this video, you did the exact same attention grabbing you accused SJWs of doing. Congratulations.
8) If a woman sleeps with a drunken man, it's rape. I don't know that this actually an issue in circles but it's rape if someone is drunk and they can't willingly give consent, it doesn't really change based on gender. So if there's actually contention, I'll agree that there shouldn't be any contention on this issue - though I haven't really SEEN contention on this issue and it's probably manufactured for this video.
9) No...but congratulations on slipping that racist "n____" slur in the video WITHOUT singing any rap music. You demonstrate your own racism and stupidity.
10) Okay, but why does it bother you so much if someone thinks they're male AND female at the same time or whatever? Like let people live their own lives, it literally does nothing to you to do so. Also, there is no real problem with white men having a voice, they literally have a voice in everything - if you're worried about your voice diminishing, yes it probably will diminish because you've enjoyed speaking at a volume of 80% when you should've been speaking at a volume of 20% - instead of pushing everyone else to about 4% to justify your 80%. So when you reach that level, everything will be fine.
11) When a woman dresses in public in a sexual manner, they do so of their own free will and in celebration of their own sexuality. When a woman is dressed provocatively in video games, it is purely to satisfy the male gaze, especially since most of the time they are designed by MALE video game designers. They're dressed to satisfy the sexual appetites of men, they are not real people deciding to embrace their own sexuality. And sure, they could be doing so in the scope of the video game...except you know, there's never really any reference to that whatsoever in these video games.
12) My favorite song when people present me with a different POV is usually "I'd Like to Teach The World to Sing" - that Coke ad really sold a message of peace we'll never get...sigh, Coke. Different points of view are always welcome because they give color to a world that would be extraordinarily dull if we were all the same...but that doesn't give you the license to make the world a harder place for other people or to be an asshole. The whole statement that "When I talk, I have a superior opinion" is LITERALLY the definition of ignoring other POVs to solely focus on yours - so there's pretty good evidence you actually don't care about other opinions.
13) You know what, I'm actually not a fan of when anyone discriminates against someone because of their racism...but since the whole concept of race and racism was invented by white people and used against people of different "races", the term reverse racism can stick around. #SorryNotSorry
14) You can't remember pronouns but you respect people's names, right? If people ask you to call them Billy Joe Bob Candy Cane, just call them Billy Joe Bob Candy Cane. Why do you need to make people's lives difficult and hurt their feelings just because they wanna be Billy Joe Bob Candy Cane?
15) Artists should enjoy freedom of speech...but that doesn't give them license to hate speech. If artists enjoy success on the back of continuing oppression against minorities and women, they should be called out on it. Also, you say people devalue the terms racism and sexism by flinging them around but your entire video thus far has been debating whether they exist.
Also, good job on including bleach at the end of your video...because the only way POCs could ever hope to find a world where these views work for them is by bleaching their skin.
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See, I don't agree here, take Eminem as an example, who uses his alter egos like Slim Shady to portray violence, a type of violence very common in society, with harsh and offensive words, should we ban him only because those words are mean? No, because he's only giving us a piece of reality, and sugar coatting would only make it worse.
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When you're white and upset because you can't say the n word
When you're white and upset because you have call someone their preferred gender
When you're white and upset because you think blacks are living in the past and racism is over
Ah, the struggle
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A bit off topic but why are SJWs always pictured as overweight, with 70s secretary glasses, and shaved hair?
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Originally posted by Gossamer™
That's classism.
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Care to elaborate on how classism has somehow mysteriously worked extremely well for white people and been the complete opposite for black people?
Because if it were an exclusively classist issue like you're trying to say it is, we wouldn't see racial disparities like we see in society currently.
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I'd take sjws over those clowns any day.
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These "Questions X have for Y" videos are always the dumbest stuff you can find on the Internet.
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Member Since: 5/17/2009
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Originally posted by Hi_im_new
He wanted white america to acknowledge their complacency in regards to brutality and social inequality towards black people. And that the violence, riots, etc that was taking place during that time was a result of this complacency.
I suggest you look up his 1967 apa convention speech to fully gauge his thoughts on rioting & violence in response to racial injustice.
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Okay
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Originally posted by Wonderland
Care to elaborate on how classism has somehow mysteriously worked extremely well for white people and been the complete opposite for black people?
Because if it were an exclusively classist issue like you're trying to say it is, we wouldn't see racial disparities like we see in society currently.
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If that were true, then we wouldn't see successful black millionaires or poor white families in trailer parks and they don't have much opportunities for them either. Yes, there is some systemic racism, but to say that it's divided neatly into racial categories is disingenuous.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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What a DUMB video and the fact that people are ACTUALLY agreeing with them? Valid points my ass
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Poor white men don't have any rights or privileges, won't anyone think of white men!!!
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