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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a white male, I'm more than willing to sit down and take my talking to.  It's hundreds of years overdue.  I mean that.

What I do get upset about is certain behaviors I see in the school system.  And it could be as minor as all the teachers getting together to wear "Girls Rule" shirts (one even worse the shirt that "Boys Drool)"

Or when my son was running for a position in the government, and his female classmate won, his teacher cheered and "said oh yay, I was hoping a girl would win."

Keep in mind, that this was after the current crop of school government didnt have any boys in it all.

There are many little micro-examples of boys feeling marginalized in school, and I have many many more, and we're seeing the long term results of that already in education, with fewer boys pursuing higher education[/quote]

As an African American women, I feel the impact of racism every damn day and you're complaining about a t-shirt.

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Any discrimination is wrong. If we decide to tolerate "just a little", guess who gets shafted the hardest?[/quote]

You missed the point. Discrimination and institutional racism are two different experiences.  The problem with the post that it equates white male fragility with institutionalized racism. Go tell Ahmaud Arbery about that t-shirt incident, both happened in 2020.

Oh wait, he's dead. Hunted down and killed. Killed on camera. I had to explain the killing to my child. The thing is, I have to explain the advertising messages, on t-shirts, to my kid too.

Or, the day that I came home upset because my white boss asked me to use the men's bathroom so that the women's bathroom could be saved for a white woman who was a cancer survivor. I never heard that you could get COVID-19 from a toilet seat in a different stall. 
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So it would be ok if I ran around with my "Men Rule" t-shirt because it isn't killing anybody?

I am sorry about your workplace, the entitlement of white women and COVID can't be fixed until we have some people willing to trust science instead of their grade school intuition.[/quote]

The toilet issue wasn’t about color. She’s making it about color. It was concern over a cancer survivor[/quote]

It was deference to the white woman so there wasn't a Karen moment. A cancer survivor isn't at significantly more risk:

https://www.today.com/health/coronavirus-cancer-risk-survivors-immunocompromised-patients-t175903

[quote]Patients with a history of cancer who are not currently on therapy and don’t have active cancer are probably not at significantly increased risk compared to other people in their age group, Moore said.[/quote]
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"probably" not is not terribly reassuring. [/quote]

But in the meantime, every cancer survivor gets their own private bathroom at work?[/quote]

In this instance how big is the workplace and how many cancer survivors are we talking about? Without the details its hard to answer. If this is a small office environment of 5 men and 5 women I don't see the big deal to make one coworker feel safe. But if there are 30 women sharing a restroom I can see the problem. Workplaces make accommodations for people all the time.[/quote]

Reasonable accommodations. This accomodation isn't reasonable or based on any science. Just someone's irrational fear.[/quote]

If the alternative was that this person go out on medical leave and I got stuck doing all their work, I think I'd just suck it up.[/quote]

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