• Excrubulent
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    3 months ago

    It’s not a perfect comparison, but the point is that these are people who are simply being extremely polite to avoid the potential threat of violence, and the other party is the one who has an undue likelihood of perpetrating that violence.

    In both cases, the violence is the bigotry, not the worry about who might inflict that violence.

    Some - wrong - people might say that black men worrying about being killed by a cop is racism because they are acting on information about their race. These are presumably the same people saying women are sexist for worrying about male violence. As always, noticing bigotry is in fact not the real bigotry.

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      Let’s go back to the original example: a woman dating.

      Assume the woman is a lesbian. Would it be racist for her to apply the behavior in the post when she dated women of color, if her opinion was based on the statistic quoted in my last post?

      My answer would be the same: it would be racist.

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        3 months ago

        You are working really hard to not answer my questions.

        Which men?

        And, are women conscious of the danger when saying no to men?