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collint0101 said:
contestgamer said:

That's not what I'm arguing. What I'm arguing that when someone DOES try to empower straight, white men they are shot down as racist, sexist or homophobic. They are not allowed to either empower themselves, or each other as a group the way minorities can. A white director/producer that openly said they want to cast more white people would literally be blacklisted in Hollywood. The problem isn't the lack of people that want to represent themselves among what you might fall majority populations (although men are a slight minority actually) - it's the fact that the ones who do are oppressed and branded social pariahs.

This goes back to what I said before, you're already empowered what more do you need? White men already make up the majority of game designers, the majority of directors, the majority of CEOs, ect. There isn't a push to have more white men in positions of power because they already make up the bulk of those positions. A director pushing for more white people in Hollywood would be redundant at best and  remind historical standards when minorities flat out couldn't be nearly as successful as white actors at worst

You dont see an issue of empowering minorities by oppressing other groups? I dont have an issue with minority empowerment, I have an issue with the fact that it's done at the expense of whites, straights and males. (and any one of those) My issue is that if someone from of those three groups were to say/do something that is celebrated as promoting empowerment by minorities, they would be branded a social outcast. It's the double standard that is the issue. Because now one group has certain freedoms that another doesn't. Not legal freedoms, but social freedoms, that if broken will lose you your job, your family so on and so forth. Right now those groups still have it pretty good. In 20 years they'll likely be a "power minority" (men already are in college and itll show up later economically). However they wont be able to do a damn thing about it, because there's a double standard of who can even speak for empowerment and who cannot. If these people werent branded racists, sexists, homophobes etc for any disagreement with leftist politics or for doing/saying the exact same things minorities are allowed to I'd have zero problem. But thats not the case.