I know your comment is in good faith because the core of what you're saying is correct, and I'm certainly not accusing you of anything... Instead of 'part of the culture' though I would phrase it as 'correlated with the culture' to avoid accidentally giving supremacists ammunition.
The point being, you have to rise above your circumstances. Just because everyone you grew up with is doing something gravely immoral doesn't make it correct. No culture should exude pathological behavior as a trait.
FWIW, I'm "disadvantaged" in a lot of ways both in reality and even by SJW standards, and I 100% agree with what you're saying. Thanks for typing it out. Don't let the sexists/racists get you down.
It's horrifying to me in a very visceral way when I see SJWs advocate for discriminatory treatment towards people for the way they born in the name of [minority subtype of the population I happen to belong to], when I've suffered so terribly for the way I was born myself. How can these people think that I'd want to visit that on others? (And even if I did, I'm pretty sure I still wouldn't want other people doing it for me...)
That's why I linked to that story. If you have an undesirable immutable property (i.e. white or male), then you have to toe the line by deprecating yourself. But if you are a minority then you are not required to do that, you are accepted simply because you are assumed to always be oppressed.
You're a better man than I am. Yes, I'm unwilling to be around those who deny the suffering of my people, the history of my country, millennia of bloody conquests, all in the name of some new found, new age concepts or equity or equality or democracy. It depresses me to be around the people who deny my suffering. I don't want to do neighborhood wine and cheese weather chat when I know he fundamentally disagrees with my right to exist or his book teaches him to wipe out my people. It is difficult for me to go to my church, synagogue, or temple, learn about burnt babies, and then go a block party and talk about Taylor Swift, cuz I sure as hell cant talk about anything else.
The fact that you can imagine hypothetical situations where the oppressed was the oppressor, or was oppressed by others, doesn't excuse the actions taken by their actual oppressor. "...us Humans are a vicious bunch" is merely a statement, not a valid excuse.
I'm already not supporting them financially. Why should I have to also deprive myself of culture as well because of them, especially when I think access to culture is my right? Your argument makes no sense.
Subordinating women and minorities/outsiders “are the customs that the general population has chosen to acknowledge” for most of civilized history “that ma[de] them valuable as signifiers that one is, to some degree, participating as a normal member of society”. I would encourage you to never use that as an argument for anything, ever. It is devoid of weight or reason. You can do better, I promise.
This oppressed ~= virtuous and support-worthy logic, whose mainstream popularity is a relatively new thing, frankly doesn't make much sense to me. IMO, if you are oppressed, you have a right to be not oppressed - and that is all. If you are oppressed and also jerk, you are a jerk and deserve to be treated accordingly, by which I do not mean the oppression, but whatever the usual consequences are for such behavior.
Being deprived of the opportunity to get an education, physically assaulted, subjected to unfair and biased laws, forbidden from autonomy, and having ones life path dictated from birth? All that sounds like being treated badly. Would you be okay with that?
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