No recognition that what you are going on about..sexism..finds its best example in your over the top indulgence in "sexism" ..you dont get that do you. Please justify your behaviour....
For using 'Aussie banter' with a fellow Australian who is adamant that his manner of addressing complete strangers is the norm.. About his whining..?
That's the entire point you missed but aptly displayed. That such banter is not the norm and is not acceptable when addressing people who are not familiar to us.
I bet I know more history than you do...but tell me how does the bad actions of others in the past justify you being abusive, a bully and both racist and sexist. Time to accept no matter how bad the situation before you little is ever achieved by playing the game with their rules. Dont be sexist and dont be racist and dont think that is not what you are doing..that is easy to do but dont fall into that trap.
You simply can not generalise..all males are bad...well that is the basic thing with racism and sexism ..its a mindless generalisation without reference to the actual reality...
So do folk like Billvon fall into your white male box??? Or any other member here?
How does anything from the past not make " white male" sexist and racist.
Justifying it by "look at how bad they were" is no excuse to lower yourself to a their disgusting level.
Is Billvon excusing racist and sexist behaviour as "the norm"? No. He is not.
But let's look at your behaviour, shall we?
You enter this thread in a huff because someone dared to call out the sexist and at times racist behaviour of a "white man" and your huff is that I mention the fact that he is a white man who keeps uttering the word "nigger" and that really is not appropriate (which even he agrees that it's not an appropriate word mind you!). But in your roar, ranting about how being called a "white man" is worse than being called "nigger" because of the sexist element to it as well..
And who do you say this to?
The only black woman in the room who has actually had the word "nigger" hissed at me on occasion from childhood through to adulthood by, yes, white men. Not only that, I have been denied service, been abused racially, been discriminated against, been harassed as a woman of colour, been sexually assaulted. By whom, you may ask? White men who are and continue to be protected and privileged by the very society
you live in.
The words "read the room" apply here. But it seems that level of reflection is beyond you..
"White men" is a designation of privilege. Something that you have benefited from your entire life by can only be deemed the accident of birth. Everyone else here recognises this. Why can't you?
Here's the thing about racism and sexism. Who wields the power still?
The other white men here, like Billvon, Dave, James, Tiassa, etc, are trying to affect change and they are using their power and privilege to do so, to make life better for us. You are more interested in preserving and protecting your privilege at the expense of "niggers" like me by ridiculously painting yourself as the victim because you are a white man..
Where have I sought to diminish the countless wrongs? Do you actually think I am unaware of the horrors hidden in history...I tell you certainly not.
Me pointing out "white male" being racist and sexist needs nothing further and certainly for you to defend obvious racism and sexism is just terrible..more so because you are blind to the point I make.
If we are to get anywhere then we need to stop being racist and sexist.. you surely must conceed that obvious fact...or are you happy just to go on offering more hate as a solution...it won't work.
While you behave no better than those you seek to correct you will not change a thing...
Well if you dont see why one is the same as the other it is only you who can look forward to being mocked...who are all these white males you hate and have more than a small percentage deserving of your hate..get real...you hate some imaginary "white male" who is simply not representative of the white males spread all over the world who are actually of the belief that racism and sexism should be stamped out.
The folk like me, my father my grandfather, my uncles, my brothers in law, my best two mates and countless other guys who are not your stereotype of choice..not racists not sexist and not your " white male" and if for no other reason you should drop the term because it is just hate that poisons your rationality.
You still don't get it, do you?
“The ability to use a slur towards someone else comes with a certain kind of institutional power behind it.” Kimmel, who coined the phrase “aggrieved entitlement” in his book, Angry White Men, further asks: “What’s the opposite of the straight white male? It’s the black lesbian, right? Please name all the big corporations who have black lesbians as CEOs. Please tell me the countries that have black lesbians as heads of state or in any political position of power. As far as I can see straight white males still dominate the world. There are still more CEOs named ‘John’ than female CEOs.”
[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/22/has-straight-white-male-become-an-insult-slur]
Your proposition is ludicrous. Do you know why? Because you still wield institutional power and you still occupy a position of privilege because you are a white male. The racism and sexism stems from the fact that white men still occupy that position of privilege at the expense and cost of everyone else.
Western governments, for example, do not represent the society they lead or govern and are instead mostly populated by white men. Look at Australia as a prime example. How many women does the Liberal Party have in cabinet federally? How about Indigenous Australians? Muslims? Africans? Asians? You know, the large portion of each group that call Australia home.
You find it more racist and sexist to call these Liberal Party members "white men" than the fact they have failed to address the shortage of women and minorities and Indigenous Australians within their ranks which is racist and sexist. Doesn't that tell you something?
Your moral outrage is against the fact that your privilege, that has always been the status quo and the norm, is now brought out to the sunshine for the goddamn disinfectant it needs.
Do you know how you have diminished "countless wrongs"? When you huffed into this thread and declared that saying "white men" or calling someone a "white man" is worse than "nigger". In that moment, you attempted to obliterate the crimes of "white men" against "niggers" throughout history and currently, by making yourself the victim. It's repulsive. You oppress and then try to claim you are the victim of the people you are oppressing.
Yes that would be it...you are crazy but stick with me you will pull thru.
Is "white male" sexist and racist? Yes or no...
No. It is not.
For reasons stated above.
