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Barbls's avatar

It's not ethnicity. If it were, then Thomas would fall into the crack you are describing. Remember, the dems wanted the moron Garland in that crack, too.

It's marxist progressivism.

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Yeah, but Thomas is qualified. He just happens to be black. They also used identity politics against him, accusing him of rape, IIRC.

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We agree. Marxist dems want you to hate black people and women because it destabilizes society. So when people ID and disparage someone like Jackson by her gender or color instead of her ideology, they are falling into the trap.

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I don't hate blacks, but I am learning to hate a large number of women. They seem particularly susceptible to things like wokeness and censorship... Not just credulously swallowing propaganda (without ever seeming to learn anything), but moralizing the shit out of every single issue all the time.

None of this would be happening if they were not so subject to groupthink and moral panics. Social media took women's worst attributes and put them on steroids.

I suspect you are a sane woman, so no offense, but I'm exhausted with pretending it's not a problem.

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Kari Lake? Winsome Sears? Carol Swain? Marsha Blackburn? Please attend a Republican Women's group in your area. Social media and MSM took every liberal's worst attributes and put them on steroids, and then censored and smeared conservatives. ALL conservatives.

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Yeah, but take a look at the FIRE poll about attitudes towards free speech men vs women. Women as a group are far more censorious, presumably because of how they exhibit aggression - gossip and slander.

Also, as a consequence of this, many women are incapable of understanding when verbal aggression crosses the line into violence. Men are more familiar with violence (generally) and are more supportive of working things out rationally before it escalates to that.

Additionally, as someone who has been an engineer for a long time, about 10 years ago I got really tired of hearing "we need more women in STEM". Somewhat recently, the concept of "validating feelings" was introduced to me and it clicked... There's no objective to a lot of what women do. When they say they want "more women", there's no success criteria. There's no stop condition. They literally have no goal when they bring identity politics into work.

I'm really, really sick of it. Yes, conservative women do exist, and I'm happy for that, but as a group, women create serious problems when they involve themselves in goal oriented affairs.

You're arguing that women be treated as individuals, and that I'm buying into the Marxist group idea, and I understand your point. But honestly, how are men supposed to deal with this, other than viewing women with skepticism? It only takes one of the "believe all women" crowd to wreck my (or any other man's) life. Why would I want to subject myself to that?

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No conservative woman would demand that anyone should "believe all women." Biden is a man. Schumer is a man. General Milley is a man. Governor Pritchard is a man. Rachel Levine is a man, and the Pennsylvania governor who hoisted him up to national prominence is a man. Larry Fink is a man. Those men have pushed this marxist ideology and have found plenty of men to endorse and enforce it. I truly think they've succeeded when they convince "goal-oriented" men that women as a group, and not the enforced ideology, are the problem. N.B.: The FIRE poll is of ~1200 college students and professors - hardly a picture of the nation.

PS: You might enjoy reading about Carol Kaye, one of the greatest bass players in the world. She's played on over 10,000 songs and had a hand in some of rock history's most celebrated hits. https://www.loudersound.com/features/meet-carol-kaye-the-genius-musician-behind-the-worlds-favourite-basslines

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