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contestgamer on 25 August 2018
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collint0101 said:
contestgamer said:

I already made it clear that it's about double standards of whats acceptable conduct. Can a straight white male say and do everything a minority can in media with the same results? Can a straight white male openly celebrate being part of an all straight, white male movie for example, without negative consequence? 

Straight white males did openly celebrate being straight white males for the longest time and we have hundreds of years of bigotry, racism, sexism, ect as proof of that. The fact that minority and feminist groups can celebrate their simple existence and push causes that are specific to them is a result of living in a culture that formally had more respect for straight white males than any other group. In a perfect world this divide of who can and can't say or do certain things wouldn't exist but this isn't a perfect world and you're looking at the byproduct of that. 

Correct, but what has happened is that the pendulum has swung toward the oppression of straight, white males and the celebration of minorities.

You said it yourself: "Straight white males did openly celebrate being straight white males for the longest time and we have hundreds of years of bigotry, racism, sexism, ect as proof of that"

Essentially you implied that the byproduct of celebrating one group over an other is bigotry, racism and sexism. Well that seems quite true, except the next 100 years will have that directed towards straight, white males and we're already at the early stages of that.