thatrandomkilljoy:

icyarguments: When people say Cis/hetro phobia, misandry or “reverse” racism only hurts feelings and homo/trans phobia, misogyny, and racism kills, I just have one question for them:



Do we have to wait for it to kill someone before people see that it’s bad? Must we wait until a life ends until we see that something is harmful to other people? Are you people so dense that the only way you see an ideology as harmful is is someone to dies over it?



Can’t we nip this in the bud before it has to come to that? The only reason racism, homo/trans phobia and misogyny got as bad as it did was because nobody stomped it out when it just started; everyone condoned it and normalized it, then it got bad. These things develop, nothing is ever going to go from 1 to 100 overnight. The change is so gradual that you don’t even notice it half the time.



Are we just going to sit around and wait until the opposite kills someone to start going “Hey, maybe we shouldn’t be saying/doing these things.”?



Or is social justice even lazier than I thought? You shouldn’t say or do these things. However, it’s probably never going to get that bad for privileged groups. Also, sometimes privileged groups try to argue that they have it just as bad when they don’t. They try to argue that they understand when they don’t. They even try to argue that minorities are the privileged ones because of a joke about a latte! That isn’t okay. So, while I agree that cis/heterophobia, misandry and “reverse” racism aren’t okay or acceptable in any way, shape or form, the fact that it only hurts feelings while homo/transphobia, misogyny and racism kill.

Misandry doesn’t kill anyone? There’s a big marble monument in Washington that diagrees.



You are aware that the Draft in the US is still perfectly legal, it just hasn’t been used in a while?

Racism against white people doesn’t kill them? Tell that to the murdered white farmers in South Africa. And hey, Reginald Denny was only beaten half to death, not all the way, so it doesn’t count, right?

Also, according to The Guardian, the UK Home Office said that about half of racist murders between 1995 and 2004 had white victims.

Though I do like how you took the opportunity to rant and rail about those darn privileged folks who don’t know what they’re talking about. Of course, your assumption that only “privileged” folks are the ones disagreeing with you is itself prejudiced.



Strangely enough, when women talk about misandry as a serious problem, they tend to get yelled at just as much as men. And then ignored, because their existence makes it harder to dismiss people talking about men’s issues as self-interested men.

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