We’ve been losing important elections. That’s not “virtually nothing”.
We’ve lost the Supreme Court. That’s not “virtually nothing’.
We’ve lost both houses of Congress. That’s not “virtually nothing”.
In my first post I noted that for the two and a half decades that I’ve been reading DU l have learned that posts about “men” are usually negative toward men. If they don’t start off negative they’ll almost always turn negative in the response.
This is a pattern, as far as I can tell that holds true across the liberal side of the internet.
This pattern, is itself, misandrist and toxic.
There isn’t anyplace on the liberal internet where a young man searching for his political identity won’t encounter this pattern.
He will certainly come across phrases like “the sexual assault that males engage in” as if sexual assault is a common male activity. The vast majority of men are not sexual assaulters. The vast majority of men are not violent. Blaming or implicating “men” as a group, for crimes committed by a small percentage of men is also misandrist.
And more than that, it’s really, really, really stupid politics.
We need to learn to use the internet to cultivate allies, not pick stupid fights and chase people away.
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