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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
This is why analogies are often a bad way to contrast a situation.
Your first analogy is a lot more correlative than your second, so I'll tackle that, because the second isn't really worth addressing.
So, if I'm reading you correctly, you believe
an athlete taking a knee in response to systematic oppression by the justice system and being told to do it elsewhere
is equivocal to
a women speaking out in response to systematic issues in the social system, and then a man saying "well what about my issues?" and being told to do it elsewhere
Do you notice the key difference here? Your analogy is only directly comparable if you give the same weight to the anthem as a broad swath of women openly admitting their issues.
Do you believe that these men would be bringing these issues up in a vacuum? Specifically, the kneejerk response of most interjectors to hijack this issue (or say, a thread about this issue) is always less about actually looking for a solution, and more about drowning out the voice of women. How many times have you seen kneejerks complain about Male Rape or Against Male Domestic Abuse? In contrast, how many times have you seen these same men volunteer for or fund initiatives to combat these issues? How many times have they included the plight gay men face regarding these issues?
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You read me incorrectly, which suggests you should be less confident in assertions of what is or isn't worthy of dismissal.
Anyways, I'll express my view for others who may read without taking the same approach as you.
I believe that emotional issues can be used to divide as well as to unite. When people choose to take a point of common ground expressed in good will and turn it into something divisive instead of treating it as shared experience upon which to form bonds, I think they're not acting to solve the issue. Common ground, shared experience and allegiances are what realise improvements for the marginalised. If a guy has had a #metoo moment and shares it in good will, that's an opportunity to bond, or an opportunity to be divisive. I'm not moralising. I'm just saying that whatever is right or wrong, meeting a well-intentioned expression of shared experience with a rejection is no way to find common ground, make friends and reach a point of mutual compassion.