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  • That’s not what privilege means. It’s not that men are at fault, although patriarchy as a whole plays a role in it. It’s that men obliviously benefit from something other people, purely because of social reasons tied to gender, have problems with.

    That’s what privilege is. White privilege, for instance, isn’t saying that every white person is responsible for systematic racism, it means they don’t have to experience systematic racism, which means they get to pretend it’s not a problem. Because it isn’t, for them.

    OP has been grossly misunderstood by the reply and nearly everyone here.


  • If we were talking about the normal version where one perspective does see 4 sides and the other 3, then I’d agree. But right wingers often completely ignore science and facts for what they feel is right - despite loudly claiming the opposite. They’re simply wrong about any number of things, from economics to gender studies to climate change, but they insist on their positions because of how they feel on a fundamental level - that all the common-sense folks around them think this way, their preacher thinks this way, and they don’t trust anyone they haven’t personally encountered long enough to understand. Time and time again, science has disproven explicitly conservative viewpoints, from race biology to Social Darwinism to climate change and so on. But they double down because to change their perspectives risks alienating their peers, or even worse, possibly damning them to Hell.

    That’s why I said what I did. Liberals are a pain in the ass and generally incapable of accomplishing much of value, but at least they typically welcome new data that may contradict a previously-held position.










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    So I’m an introverted millennial who started working for himself a couple months back. It is SO HARD to answer calls from unknown numbers with no warning. I’m just chilling and BOOM stranger on the phone.

    I’m adjusting, but I live in terror of the day the spam calls start back up and I can no longer just ignore them.