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Originally Posted by Coys1882
As smart as this guy might be that just seems wrong. To me, this logic would also excuse people of being racist against whites - that it in a sense doesn't exist. Am I interpreting this wrong?
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I'm definitely not going down THAT road, but to answer your question: No, you cannot be racist against white people. Racism is prejudice+power, it's societal and expansive. It's not "White people are stupid."
As with Misandry, racism against whites doesn't exist because there is no power, societal construct, or far reaching belief to go along with it.
Think about it this way (it's the same as racism): Misogyny has a long, terrible history. It is inspired purely out of ignorance, disrespect, and hate. "Misandry" however, were it to exist, and all examples people use to attempt to justify it's existence, is bred purely out of a response to hundreds of years of misogyny, simply out of reaction from the less societally dominant gender against the constant restriction from the most dominant gender.
In another, very basic example to illustrate my point:
Say a man beats his wife for years. He doesn't ALWAYS beat her, but once or twice a month he beats her pretty harshly. One night, after years of this abuse, during yet another night OF abuse, she takes a big hard swing and knocks him right in the mouth.
Now, after all that abuse from him, he goes to the police and claims spousal abuse because of that one hit.
That's Misandry. It's a lie. It cannot exist because any example of it is simply a reaction to years of oppression and misogyny.