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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, people treat men more deferentially and respectfully. They also treat white people better than other races, and rich people better than poor people.

Western society is full of prejudices that continue to benefit wealthy white men over all others, as has been true for centuries.

And the cool trick is that wealthy white men mostly manage to deflect this fundamental truth by pitting marginalized people against one another. So women are taught to fear black men (and view white men as protection). People of color view white women as "Karens" (a term white men have co-opted and LOVE to use, if you're paying attention). Middle and working class people are taught to blame poor people for everything so they never think to consider how the wealthy have structured the rules to benefit only themselves. And so on.

This is why there is a lot of power in marginalized groups banding together to help, defend, and promote one another.[/quote]

White men are the enemy.[/quote]

I'm the PP here and I've read the last few pages with interest. A funny thing is happening that proves my point, but many of you can't see it.

I said WEALTHY white men. This has always been the case. There has always been an upper class of wealthy white men -- usually land owners. Lots of white men actually get oppressed because they are NOT wealthy. So actually the vast majority of white men (and women) are oppressed in this dynamic.

But like I said, the rich white guys pull a trick where they convince all the people they are oppressing that the real problem is one another. So white men who are not wealthy run around pointing at women (they go to college at higher rates! they won't marry men! they are gold-diggers! etc.), or black and brown people, or immigrants, or people who have even less money than they do.

The Trump base is FULL of white men and women who feel oppressed because they ARE oppressed. By people like Trump. But rather than link arms with the people who actually share their cause, they have learned to blame and hate them.

The world is designed to benefit rich white guys and the people they decide to bestow some power/gifts upon (occasionally includes women or gay people or people of color, but only if CHOSEN by the rich white guys, who really pull the strings). The rest of us are just plebes fighting for table scraps. But because a lot of white men self-identify with the Elon Musks and Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch and Warren Buffets of the world, they can't see that these men will only ever exploit them, and that they would be better off actually building bridges to women and minorities and other oppressed people who actually share many of their struggles.

Blah blah blah now cue the communism accusations (even though this is not communism but whatever). [/quote]

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