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Renamed said:

curl-6 said:

As someone who was born (mostly) white, male, and straight, I just got tired of my "own side" treating me like I was evil just for being born this way, and that I had to spend my entire life apologizing for my existence and hearing myself constantly demeaned.

It was hard to really feel like I was part of the left when the left openly treated me like the enemy.

What passes for "left" nowadays just isn't what I believe in.

Equality feels like oppression to the privileged. What I mean by that is when born into a privilege that is not easily quantifiable, equality can feel like you are being disciplined or punished.

Straight white males on average exist in the front row and often don't see the struggles of those behind them.  When the kids in the back row who are farther away and barely even see the basket are given help (auto-aim, increased arm power, extra throws, etc...), the kids up front may feel that it is unjust and unfair.

But it's not unjust or unfair.  You still sit in that front row.  Again, this is all on average and not explicitly applicable to every single straight white male (such as myself). 

Nobody is asking you to apologize for being white, or male or straight.  The far right tells you the left is demanding this but they are not.

And speaking of far right....

With in regards to the self proclaimed centrists often merely acting like they centrists, I present you the "Fair and Balanced" Fox News. Nobody claims they are more center than Fox. Their viewers then take on that idea and also proclaim they are center.  They like the how Fox has branded themselves center because it gives them a sense of supremacy (see a connection there?).

And many don't know they are far right because the only people that tell them they are far right is the left itself who the "center" (read: far right) labels as the enemy.

They use this "center" viewpoint as a way to proclaim the left do these hateful things (like demanding you apologize for being a straight white male) while never having to worry about being called out for such nonsense. The far, far right (Newsmax, Alex Jones, etc...) certainly isn't going to tell Fox that the left isn't demanding that so these "centrists" never hear otherwise.

This view is a gross oversimplification, there are countless factors that determine someone's situation in the world and skin colour or gender are just two of them, and thanks to the left, white people and males experience racism and sexism in today's culture too. Culture warriors on the left will constantly tell you to shut up and that you're trash just for existing or that you're not allowed to speak. You're automatically viewed as bad based on traits you were born into through no choice of your own.

And that's exactly the problem; the left seems to think you can solve hate with hate, and you can't, that's like trying to put out a wildfire with a flamethrower. The more they lecture and yell at people, the more they breed acrimony and resentment, and the more divided we all become. This is how we ended up with the alt right, the left became so aggressive and pushy that they pushed people into the arms of the far right.

Regarding the rest, I'm not from the US, I've never even watched Fox News.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 11 April 2024