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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t think you interpreted the meaning there correctly

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  • loudwhisper@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Can you please then elaborate on what the following means, according to your interpretation?

    Women and minority only spaces exist because white men as a group have historically discriminated against them

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It means that white men have discriminated against them, yes, but it doesn’t rule out the possibility that white women have discriminated against black groups or that black men have discriminated against women groups.

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      • loudwhisper@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        No it doesn’t exclude that, but it also unnecessarily mixes racial with gender discrimination, and in a general statement like that is odd to do that. The intention I perceived was to link the creation of spaces that women (or minorities) require to white men discrimination only, which is absurd in my opinion.

        To make a similar example, saying “gay people need their spaces, because they are historically discriminated by black women” doesn’t “exclude” that also men discriminate them, or that also white women do, but I hope you can see what an odd statement that is, and if someone would find it misogynistic or racist, I think they would be right.

        Thinking maliciously, I would say that’s the classic way for a white guy (the commenter stated that about himself) to make a statement that is less controversial because it only “accuses” their own demographic and the most acceptable demographic to critique.

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