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Old 04-26-2016, 11:48 AM   #360
CliffFletcher
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague View Post
The issue isn't that white people are victims. The primary victims of islamist terrorism are not white people. They're women and other disadvantaged groups in areas dominated by islamism who are oppressed by the political ideology there. The issue of ethnicity that comes up isn't "no one cares about whites anymore", it's "people will make excuses for or otherwise fail to condemn behaviour by people where, if that behaviour were committed by a white person, there would be widespread unadulterated outrage". It's the double standard that's his point, not some notion of white persecution.
Yes, exactly.

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I think the issue is more how much you pay attention to social media. If the answer is "a fair amount", you tend to get way more depressed about the state of things on the left. I just shut down twitter for a week, I recommend it... though it's hard to do during the playoffs.
It's not just twitter (which I don't follow). Mainstream media outlets like the CBC, Globe & Mail, and the Guardian all give prominent platforms to reflexively anti-Western ideologues of the identity-politics left. Though I am beginning to suspect that the purpose of those columnists is to troll the audience, and generate page hits and comments.

Then there are the regions of the web associated with nerd stuff (gaming, fantasy fiction, etc), which have become a toxic battleground of identity politics, with many sites becoming homogeneous echo-chambers representing equally obnoxious factions.
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If this day gets you riled up, you obviously aren't numb to the disappointment yet to be a real fan.
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