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comment by galen
galen  ·  3390 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's a White Man's Internet

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/

    I'm a stereotypical white guy.

    a lot of white men are angry.

    They're angry at mexicans and they're angry at women. They're angry at a Big Government that ostensibly serves the interests of minorities and women, exclusively.

    An attack on injustice is a proxy war on the white man.

    When an angry white man talks about "social justice warriors" he is laying his mind bare to you; justice is necessarily a war on white men because that is who injustice serves.

    I'd be remiss to leave out the economic elephant in the room: the angry white man is all the more angry because privilege is delegated by class as well as race and gender. That the angry white man should blame other angry white men for his economic woes is something that doesn't occur to him, amazingly.

    White, male America is the beneficiary of years of injustice. The dynamic is different in other countries and at different times, but that is the reality here and now. Equality would absolutely benefit everyone, but it will come at the cost of a crooked privilege being revoked from those that are rulers now. To them it can only be viewed as a loss.

Who the fuck are these angry white men you're talking about? They're clearly not stereotypical white men, because you're one of those and you don't display any of the qualities you've attributed to them: anger at minorities, fear of progress, viewing any increase in equality as a loss.

Could these angry white men be the Red Tribe?