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collint0101 said:
contestgamer said:

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.

Now you're just trying to predict the future. If 100 years from now there is legitimate opppession of white straight males that is comparable to the bigotry 50s or prior eras that is a tragedy that should be stopped but in the present all you're doing is actively hoping that attempts to better include underrepresented groups fail for the sake of securing the position of a group that currently dominates the vast majority of art and media. 

Yeah, but we are already experiencing that oppression. I've described this a dozen times now. Can a white straight male say or conduct themselves the same way a minority can in media? Can a white straight male say they want to cast white straight males in their movies, then celebrate it openly when they do it, and see the same response as when a minority does it? No. It's oppression, plain and simple. Certain people need to watch their words and conduct a lot more closely than others, lest they be branded and discarded from polite society.