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e0ab63 No.3312

Why do atheists hate feminists?

36fe73 No.3313

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A lot of what they say is incredibly irrational and they are prone to censorship based on entirely subjective reasons.

eb5e33 No.3314

I think a more accurate question should be: why do most young adults hate feminists? (Teenagers and younger college students can be excepted since they have limited experience with them and their rally call of equality looks good on paper.)

d615d8 No.3315

Same reason we hate theists.

30a72f No.3317

>>3312
Because atheism is about the lack of belief in deities, not about MUH OPPRESION

7bd447 No.3318

>>3312
I don't hate feminists. Some of my friends are feminists. I merely can't stand the feminists with shitty misguided or corrupt ideals.

714f38 No.3341


f34bbb No.3342

They're just as dogmatic as the religious zealots they hate

03225e No.3343

Hate is a strong word. I harbor a certain level of antipathy toward feminists and am extremely wary of them. And they're pretty much literally a cult, but more dangerous because almost nobody recognizes them as such.

9001c6 No.3348

Probably because atheists tried to turn feminists into their allies and feminists took the opportunity to stab atheists in the back.

40ecfc No.3360

>>3312
I support feminist oughts but do not agree with most feminist ises. Those oughts are not my subjective opinion because most feminists are doing it wrong.

9bf897 No.3368

They purposefully turn a blind eye to equality for men. At least the modern 3rd wave feminists in my experience, it is how they act as a collective. Very misandrist.

038ee6 No.3374

>>3312

I dislike the way some modern 3rd wave feminists act, but I don't hate feminism. At least, not the idea of feminism - the equal rights for women as well as men.

I don't think a lot of feminists are that, though; even ones that think they are.


I'm not an "anti-feminist" however. I believe that's a stupid and redundant position to take.

9001c6 No.3398

>>3374

If you like equality, why can't you praise egalitarianism, rather than feminism, for upholding that as a value?

Don't you think it's suspicious when a movement wants to praise itself for being about equality but only focuses on the advancement of a single demographic?

038ee6 No.3404

>>3398

I never said I WASN'T an Egalitarian. Just not a feminist. I don't emphasize labels, though. I might be liberal/progressive, but I don't go around saying "YO GUYZ IM SUPER PROGRESSIVE." I just hold beliefs and ideas that fall close to that.

One of the reasons I hate the two party system in America (well, not technically two party, but it might as well be) is because people feel the need to put themselves in this box by going rigidly with one side or another. fuck that, positions on politics and how we should take care of each other are complicated and gradient.

So, in all technicality, I'm an Egalitarian. And also technically a "sex positive" feminist, if you really want to get into definitions - though I don't identify myself as a feminist.

Also, feminism started at a time when it was needed. There's was a very clear cut problem of inequality between men and women. Nowadays, it's a bit more complicated, because we're getting into cultural norms and personal perspectives.

Honestly, Feminism could have died out or had something take it's place much earlier in history, but for some reason, nothing did, so now we got the idiotic Feminists that think Atheism+ and manspreading are worthwhile topics.

9001c6 No.3406

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>>3404

>Also, feminism started at a time when it was needed. There's was a very clear cut problem of inequality between men and women.


Yeah, men got to be subject to the draft while women could sit on their duff at home. Feminism was needed to right the enormous injustice of women having to choose between having the right to vote and being free from the obligation of conscription. Feminism was also real great for the huge inequality in that everyone could drink alcoholic beverages because their consumption wasn't banned as part of a constitutional amendment. Good thing those suffragettes were there to fight for noble causes like prohibition!

Your history has been whitewashed. You don't even know half the shit the earliest feminists in western societies involved themselves in, and their narrative about fighting for equality is and has always been nothing but a cover-up for their desire to expand their own privileges and power regardless of what was equal or fair. If men had something they didn't have, it was a huge injustice which had to be corrected immediately. If they had something men didn't have, oh well, who gives a shit? You're just a misogynist who's trying to keep women in the kitchen, shame on you.

I am sick to fucking death of everyone praising the lunacy of a bunch of spoiled rich white bitches throwing a shitfit in the early 1900s and getting their way almost immediately. They were not saints, they were not angels, and they were not heroes of human rights. They were the SJWs of their time, spreading threat narratives about men and throwing tantrums like the entitled little shits they were. They were not noble and they were not just. They were spoiled little brats just like the feminists of today. They just got away with it because they used a hollow narrative to cover for their agenda of female supremacy.

038ee6 No.3418

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>>3406

Oh god, is this real?
Do people hold these opinions?

..do..you do realize you sound like a conspiracy theorist, right?

31c28e No.3420

Just some of the really annoying in your face ones

c2acc8 No.3422

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>>3418
I don't see any conspiracy theory there. That Anon just doesn't think the whole women's suffrage movement is so white as it's written in history textbooks. Remember history is written by the victors so they will write about their accounts in a good light. That's hardly a conspiracy.

The women's suffrage movement can be seen as an overthrow of power of a regime that actually wasn't that oppressive as anon pointed out. While women lacked the right to vote they weren't socially obligated to work or go fight in wars. Some women would prefer this I don't see why you're having such trouble with this.

038ee6 No.3464

>>3422

Listening to reasonable folks is different from taking stupid and bigoted opinions seriously.

His whole post reads like this:

>Fucking bitches just didn't want to stay in their place because they were too spoiled to see how good they had it.


Completely negating the fact women lacked basic human rights given to men at the time. That's not a fucking narrative, no one is trying to spin anything - That's just how it was. Just like the treatment of blacks in America at one point was fucking abysmal.

And no one here is saying that everything woman's suffrage/1st wave feminists did was hunky dory. There were problems, but to deny the good that's been done by these people during their time to make a more equal society over their faults is lunacy.

That would be like saying Abe Lincoln was a piece of shit because he wanted to send slaves back to Africa, even though he was integral in abolishing slavery. Or saying the Moon landing is bullshit because a former nazi scientist worked on the rocket design.

c2acc8 No.3470

>>3464
You're the one being a bigot here actually, by definition.

big·ot
ˈbiɡət/
noun
noun: bigot; plural noun: bigots

a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.


>Completely negating the fact women lacked basic human rights given to men at the time. That's not a fucking narrative, no one is trying to spin anything - That's just how it was. Just like the treatment of blacks in America at one point was fucking abysmal.

Given your standards. Someone might say the treatment of blacks and women was exactly what it should have been as it was white men who made this society for themselves. And you're not anymore right, there isn't any inherent goodness to equality, there's no inherent goodness to anything.

>but to deny the good that's been done by these people during their time to make a more equal society over their faults is lunacy.

What you see as good, someone else can see as evil. Good and evil aren't objectively defined. Making things more equal someone can say is a bad thing as it diminished power from one group and distributed it for another as is in this case. In that way it was bad for men when you think about it. Equality has it's costs and some people don't think it's a fair price to pay and until we can objectively weigh these pros and cons there is no objective right or wrong. Even engineering decision matrices have subjectivity to them so suggest something this to be objectively right or wrong only makes me kek.

038ee6 No.3472

>>3464

>Listening to reasonable folks is different from taking stupid and bigoted opinions seriously.



Or rather, listening and hearing other opinions doesn't mean I have to agree or respect that opinion.

Just like I don't have to respect Islamic viewpoints because they're bigoted as shit, I don't have to respect to respect his opinions. He has the right to them, but that doesn't mean he's right, or that his opinions are at all valued.



>>3470

>You're the one being a bigot, by definition.


See my above text. Also, just because I criticize his opinion doesn't mean I'm intolerant. This is a public forum made to exchange ideas, and if he didn't want them criticized, he shouldn't have posted them.

>Given your standards. Someone might say the treatment of blacks and women was exactly what it should have been as it was white men who made this society for themselves. And you're not anymore right, there isn't any inherent goodness to equality, there's no inherent goodness to anything.


I'm honestly not following your post here. Are you saying by my standards, someone can say that we're justified in our mistreatment of women and minorities at the time because our society was made for the white man?

IF so, then no. I don't know where you got that.

And saying "no inherent goodness to anything" is something a 14 year old would point out about the world. Of course there's not inherent "good," only our perception of what is good based on what helps us progress as a species.

And you know what helps that? Equality. In the sense it puts all people and their opinions on the same playing field, not to be judged by shallow things like gender or race, but by what we say. Also born with the same rights etc etc, which allows everyone a fair shot.

Total equality is probably a goal that will never be reached, but trying to strive for it is something we should do.

>What you see as good, someone else can see as evil. Good and evil aren't objectively defined. Making things more equal someone can say is a bad thing as it diminished power from one group and distributed it for another as is in this case. In that way it was bad for men when you think about it. Equality has it's costs and some people don't think it's a fair price to pay and until we can objectively weigh these pros and cons there is no objective right or wrong. Even engineering decision matrices have subjectivity to them so suggest something this to be objectively right or wrong only makes me kek.



Again, 14 year old logic. Bad logic at that.

>What you see as good, someone else can see as evil.


Aw man, so profound. Even still, good and evil can be measured as to how it helps us as a species (like I've said before.)


>The price of equality

It means everyone is equal. The only price is that you allow other people to have the same rights as you.

>diminishes power from groups.

Because we…make things equal? Equality means everyone is on the same playing field. It doesn't mean another group has MORE power. We still have problems, sure, but the point is to talk about these issues and figure out how to even that playing field.

>Bad for men

How was it bad for men? Because we now have to treat women with respect? As people?

Why is equality bad for men?


>Some people don't think it's a fair price.


Yeah, those people had to give up their slaves. Imagine having to pick all that cotton all by themselves!


Come on, Anon. Think

9001c6 No.3473

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>>3418

>..do..you do realize you sound like a conspiracy theorist, right?


Massive self-interest among spoiled, entitled people is not a conspiracy. It's just people being assholes like usual. What the suffragettes did was political activism during a tumultuous time in human history, particularly while the first world war was raging.

>>3464

>His whole post reads like this:

>Insert misogynistic narrative which mirrors exactly what I was criticizing

Way to prove my point. History gets whitewashed by narratives and all the nasty shit the suffragettes did and lobbied for gets obscured behind a message that sounds good on the surface (who would ever argue against equality under the law for everyone?) but wasn't what they were actually striving for in practice. And you swallow the whole thing hook, line, and sinker.

>Completely negating the fact women lacked basic human rights given to men at the time.


No, they had a privilege (not being subject to the draft) and they paid for it by giving up another privilege (the right to vote). What they did was keep the privilege they already had and lobbied to pick up an additional one, and they never lifted a finger to help relieve men of the obligation they themselves never suffered under. Selective service is still legal to this day, and a court case attempting to declare it as unconstitutional was struck down in January of 1918 by the Supreme Court, while men were still dying in the trenches on the western front. Where were the suffragettes when men were being drafted and being told that it was their voting rights which made them obligated to involuntary servitude in their country's military? Why did women get the vote without conscription a mere two years after men were denied freedom from conscription? Equality my fucking ass. They were just advancing the status of women in the western world and equality never had anything to do with it.

Frankly, I'm not even saying that pushing for the advancement of your own demographic is an inherently evil thing to do, but let's call a spade a spade. People lobbying for their own advancement is not a fight for equality. It's not noble and it's not heroic. It's just lobbying for self interest, and that's all the suffragettes did. They weren't champions of liberty as your naive view of history would have you believe.

c2acc8 No.3477

>>3472
>See my above text. Also, just because I criticize his opinion doesn't mean I'm intolerant.
You're calling him a bigot but are just as bigoted. It's just hypocritical is all.

> Are you saying by my standards, someone can say that we're justified in our mistreatment of women and minorities at the time because our society was made for the white man?

Not made for but made by. But the point is mistreatment is subjective, there is no objective right or wrong way to treat people, no such thing as objective mistreatment. I can say treating people equally is mistreatment since people aren't equal and you're treating equal things as though they were the same.

>Of course there's not inherent "good," only our perception of what is good based on what helps us progress as a species.

Why help species as a whole? The point may be to just help yourself.

>And you know what helps that? Equality.

Not necessarily, equal distribution of wealth takes away from research to give to poor people who at best will work at Mcdonalds. It doesn't necessarily help progress.

>Again, 14 year old logic. Bad logic at that.

You're the one with 14 year old logic, you're so stuck in this textbook convention blinding you from seeing anything beyond.

>Equality means everyone is on the same playing field. It doesn't mean another group has MORE power.

In democracy it means the other group now has as much say as you diminishing your worth in vote.

>Why is equality bad for men?

Because now men's votes are worth less.

>Yeah, those people had to give up their slaves. Imagine having to pick all that cotton all by themselves!

And this wasn't a bad thing for slave owners?

Come on, Anon. Think. No seriously, think before you speak.


I'm sorry but your egalitarian dogma has chained your brain like a southern slaver chained negros. When you realize that you will grow as a person. Till then you're the 14 year old projecting your age onto me.

c2acc8 No.3479

>>3477
*unequal things as though they were the same

Seriously this board needs a delete option.

9001c6 No.3480

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>>3472

>Just like I don't have to respect Islamic viewpoints because they're bigoted as shit,


Oh man, this is going to be rough, isn't it? I'm Islamic because I don't think people who lobby for self-interest are heroes of equality, now? Well, as long as the conversation is still going, I'm going to keep trying to build this bridge. Here goes.

>but that doesn't mean he's right, or that his opinions are at all valued.


By all means, correct me. Do you think it is fair that men are legally required to be eligible for the draft, and that the legal justification for this is spelled out in the 1918 supreme court case which states that men pay for their right to vote with the obligation to be subject to conscription? Do you think it is fair for women to get this right without the obligation that men are legally required to submit themselves to? I really don't see you addressing this point, and it's critical to the issue of suffrage and the reputation of the suffragettes. They were able to secure voting rights for themselves without the obligation to be drafted, and they made it happen within two years of the challenge to the draft being shot down in court. Why leave men hanging out to dry while they secured voting rights without draft obligations for themselves? Why did they quit lobbying for suffrage equality once they got their 19th amendment? What excuse do they have, unless they were never really interested in universal equality in the first place? Are these stances really all that outrageous that you feel they can be fairly compared to Islam? You're comparing my criticism of suffragettes to a religion whose primary prophet is a pedophile. I think I have reason to take offense to that kind of insinuation.

>Also, just because I criticize his opinion doesn't mean I'm intolerant.


Actually, you were completely dismissive of me in >>3418 to the point that you didn't even feel the need to offer a counterargument. Instead, you simply blasted away with a smug reaction image and a snark about conspiracy theories. If I responded to you in that way, would you say that I was being particularly tolerant of your stance? Do you think that this is a tolerant way to behave toward other people in an argument?

I don't want to insult your intelligence by suggesting that you thought your post constituted "criticism," but by your own words, you seem to think that's the case. I can't pull you out from under this bus if you're going to be the one throwing yourself underneath it.

> Are you saying by my standards, someone can say that we're justified in our mistreatment of women and minorities at the time because our society was made for the white man?


I wouldn't call it mistreatment to exempt an entire demographic from the draft. Men didn't have the privilege of voting, they paid for it by being subject to the draft, and what's more, they didn't get a choice in whether they made that payment or not. Neither did women, to be fair, but that is a matter of the legal system lacking voluntarism in the early 20th century, not a mistreatment of one demographic and a privileging of another. Men paid for voting rights by being drafted, and women paid for not being drafted by not being able to vote, and none of them really had a say in it. A women couldn't volunteer to give up her exemption to the draft in exchange for the vote any more than a man could surrender his vote in exchange for exemption from the draft. It was a shit deal for everyone. Today, thanks to the one-sided lobbying campaign of the suffragettes, it remains a shitty deal for men, and one where women have the privilege of voting without the reciprocal obligation to be subject to the draft. Women are entirely advantaged by this. Whatever you want to call it, it isn't equality. Men are getting the shitty end of the deal here.

9001c6 No.3481

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>>3472

>And saying "no inherent goodness to anything" is something a 14 year old would point out about the world.


Is this insinuation that your opponent has the mentality of a 14 year old another example of how tolerant you are of other peoples' arguments? Are you sure you understand what bigotry and tolerance are?

>Equality. In the sense it puts all people and their opinions on the same playing field, not to be judged by shallow things like gender or race, but by what we say. Also born with the same rights etc etc, which allows everyone a fair shot.


This is a very nice sentiment, but when you use it while ignoring the enormous inequality of men having to pay for their right to vote with submission to the draft, all these nice-sounding words become hollow platitudes. Equality doesn't mean "only for the good stuff." That's not equality. That's supremacy. Any movement which focuses only on the advancement of one demographic over others can fairly be called a supremacist movement, and that is my accusation against the suffragettes and feminists. They are not egalitarians.

>Total equality is probably a goal that will never be reached, but trying to strive for it is something we should do.


And we're never going to even get close to it as long as we keep awarding privileges and goodies to one demographic while leaving the other demographic with all of their obligations. As long as we refuse to balance both obligations and privileges, we will only be walking a path which takes us farther away from equality, not nearer to it.

>Again, 14 year old logic. Bad logic at that.


Not that you'll explain your position.

>Aw man, so profound.


Nice snark. More of that tolerance and not-bigotry you're exhibiting so well, I suppose.

>It means everyone is equal. The only price is that you allow other people to have the same rights as you.


It's pretty frustrating to see you completely ignore the issue of the draft and retreat from a detailed discussion into vague platitudes. Nobody is going to argue against equality. That would be silly, and that is why groups who are not actually lobbying for equality hide behind such platitudes as their taglines. It's easier to get people to support you if you say you are working toward a goal that everyone agrees is noble. But if it's not what you're actually doing, it's all hogwash. Acting to secure privileges (voting rights) without taking on the reciprocal obligations (the draft) for your own demographic while doing nothing to release other demographics from having to pay for their rights with reciprocal obligations is not equality. It is supremacy. This behavior makes the equality narrative an empty one.

>How was it bad for men? Because we now have to treat women with respect? As people?

>Why is equality bad for men?

The frequency with which you completely ignore the issue of the draft actually put me in enough doubt to scroll up so I could make sure I hadn't neglected to mention it. Well, I pretty clearly pointed out this issue in >>3406 so I can't understand why you are completely ignoring it and ducking behind the cover of noble-sounding platitudes again. If granting voting rights without draft obligations is treating women like people, then what does that say about the treatment of men who must pay for their voting rights with the draft? It sounds like men are being treated like second-class citizens or subhumans to me. And someone who thinks like that might, unsurprisingly, create a piece of political propaganda which plainly advises women to "Jump on him - he is only a mere man," and to do so completely unironically. This sort of behavior is a lot less baffling when you consider the possibility that maybe - just maybe - they weren't kidding. They actually viewed men as subordinate to them, deserving of less respect and dignity, because in reality, suffragettes didn't give a fuck about gender equality. They were only interested in the advancement of their own demographic. Again, not inherently evil, but it sure as shit ain't noble either.

>Yeah, those people had to give up their slaves. Imagine having to pick all that cotton all by themselves!


We are talking about suffragettes not being egalitarians. What's any of this got to do with slavery? Sounds to me like it's just fluffing an anti-white narrative on top of an anti-male one. Are you perhaps operating under the Social Justice Warrior definition of racism or sexism as being prejudice plus power? Do you have a problem with white men which could be jeopardizing your ability to approach this subject objectively?

c2acc8 No.3482

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>>3481
I'll argue against equality, anon. Equality isn't the good people say it is. If people truly were equal then equality would be justified but the fact remains they aren't and we're throwing resources away into this fantasy.

I don't care about starving children in Guatemala, I care about money going into research. The more money we throw at these starving children and whatever is money that could've been spent on research. And even if 1 or 2 per how many thousand go on to become researchers that by any sound measure is not an efficient use of money. The returns are trivial compared to the costs. Plus we need poverty so that we can exploit their workforce, if we raise their standards we also raise the price of products they manufacture. No longer will they go for jobs that pay pennies an hour.

I'm sorry but inequality can be seen as actually good. It's why I can buy things for dirt cheap. It's getting more of the available resource pie for yourself. I know this is conventionally immoral but those morals are egalitarian morals that anyone can reject.

9001c6 No.3483

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>>3482

Equality is one of those terms that can mean a couple of different things based on the context. I failed to be specific enough in this case. In my case, I'm a libertarian egalitarian, so when I say "equality," I really mean "equality of opportunity, not of outcome" and "equality under the law." I am certainly not in favor of non-voluntary wealth redistribution. Does that make things a little more clear?

c2acc8 No.3484

>>3482
Another matter is the eugenic argument. By helping the intellectually disadvantaged we're perpetuating their stupidity in our gene pool instead of weeding it out. I doubt this has any overlap with immunological factors so the idea that we're reducing diversity is true but it's not useful diversity, it's arguably deleterious.

And so equality is not great again.

inb4 someanon hurr durps intelligence is just culture
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.neuro.28.061604.135655

c2acc8 No.3486

>>3483
Ah, ok then. That's the kind of equality I can agree with. Though I could argue that even giving people the opportunity may be a waste of money as we can sift out ability through testing, even fairly well now, so there may not be any benefit to giving the opportunities to those we know within some margin that they won't become physicists or biologists, etc. A kid with Downs will not go on to become much more than pizza delivery, if even.


Also what's your opinion on Rothbard?
Specifically this: http://mises.org/library/egalitarianism-revolt-against-nature-and-other-essays

9001c6 No.3487

>>3484

Well, what do you mean exactly by "helping the intellectually disadvantaged?" Are you defining the intellectually disadvantaged as people who are mentally retarded, or do you just mean people who are less intelligent than others but not in the realm of handicapped? In either case, what do you mean by helping them? Do you refer to paying for their public education, or something else?

c2acc8 No.3489

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>>3487
>Are you defining the intellectually disadvantaged as people who are mentally retarded, or do you just mean people who are less intelligent than others but not in the realm of handicapped?
Anyone below what is considered 115 IQ now, this is because you always want to select for better. And this is probably a good enough cutoff.

If we bred a population of highly cognitively capable individuals the population with the few smart Guatemalans don't stand a chance in comparison. The progress the eugenic society would make over the egalitarian one is a huge margin.

As for menial labor, automation. Robots are even cheaper right now when you factor in the cost of raising a human being. That initial start up is nothing in comparison.

>In either case, what do you mean by helping them?

Welfare and the like. It's true that poverty does factor into stupidity, deprived of nutrients the brain doesn't develop properly, etc. But at the same time inheriting alleles that don't develop a well functioning brain while having all the right conditions doesn't make one smart enough to figure out to make money. Sure Kim Kardaishian etc happen but that's because there are all these stupid people creating a market for that.

I can't decide on how to go about it, free market eugenics or full out fascist.

c2acc8 No.3492

>>3489
115, with std dev 10

9001c6 No.3493

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>>3486

I see three arguments in the summary here. The one which least interests me involves urbanites who spurn their environments while claiming to yearn for a return to nature. Rothbard's rebuttal is sufficient - if those people think nature is so much better, nobody is stopping them from migrating to it.

Of much greater interest to me are the very difficult concept of property rights and of the parent-child relationship.

Property rights give me a lot of trouble, moreso than other rights. In the first place, I agree with George Carlin's stance on rights - there are no such things as inalienable rights which people are born with, but rather privileges which are granted to people who enter into contracts, even involuntary contracts with the state, and those privileges can be rescinded, especially if they violate the terms of the contract; hence why you'd be hard-pressed to find people who would seriously object to imprisonment of criminals.

Because I don't see rights as inalienable, but rather as part of the terms of a contract, I don't think property rights can really exist outside of a contractual agreement. That's why bears can dig around in your trash can - they don't know what counts as yours and what doesn't, and if you don't enforce that rule with a sizable projectile to the head, that bear will have absolutely no reason to respect your property rights. The biggest problem I have with property rights is in the question of how they are obtained. After the Louisiana Purchase, American settlers made a mad dash to plant a bunch of stakes in the ground to claim property for themselves. I think that kind of display highlights the absurdity of regarding property rights as an inalienable human right, rather than a contractual benefit.

I haven't explored this subject enough to come to any solid conclusions about it, but I don't think property rights can exist without contracts, at the very least. Somebody has to agree with you about what constitutes your stuff, and how your stuff shouldn't be messed with by anyone other than you without your permission. If nobody agrees, then you have to defend all of your property claims by way of force. And when that happens, the only right you really have is the right of might. Suffice to say, that's not much of a right at all.

The other issue, the issue of the responsibility of parents over their children is another tough one. This always seems to come down to a struggle of whether parents or society are responsible for children. The popular opinion is that parents are the responsible party, but that tune changes very quickly once you start getting fucked up parents who start locking their own kids in Uncle Touchy's Basement Funhouse or selling them into the human trafficking industry. That's the point when people want the government to step in and take the children away from the custody of their parents. But if the government can step in when they see fit, then aren't children never really under the responsibility of their parents, since that responsibility can be relieved at any time by the judgment of a social worker? But that doesn't seem to work, either. At least, people seem to be very resistant to the idea that a government should be primarily responsible for children rather than just rescuing them in emergency situations. But why? Why are they resistant to the government as a primary caregiver?

I think the answer lies in our selfish genes. We still kind of want a free-for-all when it comes to this business of passing on not only our physical traits, but also our principles and teachings to our children as well. And I have a hard time arguing against that - if a parent thinks they've got the best lessons to teach to their children to maximize their chances of success, why should any third party be permitted to interrupt that? If the parents are wrong, their children will not be successful, and bad methods of raising children will be weeded out like any other bad evolutionary trait.

But then, that's not really fair to the children as individuals, is it? It rather reduces them to objects belonging to the interests of their parents, and lots of people are really uncomfortable with robbing children of their own individual rights, whatever we want those rights to be.

My stance is pretty inconclusive on property rights and children's rights. I don't really have a decent model for which I could comfortably say it would work for everyone. The jury's still out, sorry to say.

c2acc8 No.3494

>>3493
I like the way you think, bro.

9001c6 No.3496

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>>3489

I see. Well, I don't think it would be possible to enact a policy of IQ-based eugenics without a strong authoritarian system, and on that basis I would have to oppose any government-run breeding programs.

Of course, welfare is another one of those lovely non-voluntary programs which seizes money from people who figure out how to manage their own lives at a profit and redistribute this money to people who cannot or will not do the same. I'm all about voluntarism, so I do not object to charity, but forced charity is pretty dark and destructive, and it's just a corrupt votebuying tactic used by cynical politicians anyway. The whole thing can go in the trash as far as I'm concerned.

To be as much of a stereotypical libertarian as I can be, I'll have to fall back on the old "free market will fix it" solution to the problem of stupid people breeding in large numbers. If people have to, at a bare minimum, have enough intelligence to manage their own finances as a prerequisite to survival and procreation, then that is enough to satisfy my desired standards for human intelligence in the gene pool.

c2acc8 No.3500

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>>3496
Why I mentioned the free market option is because of the implication from the notion that the more intelligent you are the better you can figure out how to make money.

Now in a free market I would expect the upper classes to be even more concentrated with intelligent people than there are now because of that. Such competition would weed out stupid pretty fast.

Then because of the lack of welfare the really stupid would not have the resources to have kids. Deregulation of product safety testing may also factor into this.

Generation by generation the population would get genotypically smarter.

That's the idea.

Also there could be a culture of appreciating intelligence, where stupid people are treated as stupid people not equals.

Plus then there is the matter of genetic engineering, there would be no bans on it like there is now thanks to certain egalitarians. The only country that is actively pursuing genetic engineering are the Chinese, pic related (I would kill to work for them). And you should read the butthurt on this side of the planet about it, they acknowledge the West will fall further behind without accepting why. And instead of starting our own research to raise intelligence through genetic engineering (fetal screening, in vivo viral geen therapy, etc) we're bitching about the Chinese studying it. It's pathetic. And so much for progress, I hate how perverted that term is here. These people actively stand in the way of progress for ideology while calling themselves progressives. Makes me sick.

9001c6 No.3501

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>>3500

>The only country that is actively pursuing genetic engineering are the Chinese, pic related (I would kill to work for them).


Ba-dm-tsh!

038ee6 No.3502

My lord, the amount of fucking butthurt.

>>3473

>Massive self-interest among spoiled, entitled people is not a conspiracy.


The way it's presented comes off as a conspiracy. The idea that women's suffrage was more about gaining advantage over men then any sort of equality comes off as a conspiracy.

>Way to prove my point


Never said that the Suffragettes never did anything horrible. But to completely deny any sort of good or progress by women's suffrage is to completely ignore history.

>No, they had a privilege (not being subject to the draft) and they paid for it by giving up another privilege (the right to vote)


Are you really serious with this? It's not like women were like "Nah, we don't want to own land, vote, or get education. If you guys fight all of the wars, we'll let you guys have that."

No, that was imposed on them. It had its roots in culture, sure, but it's not like women asked to be treated this way. Your whole perception of this is skewed.


>People lobbying for their own advancement is not a fight for equality. It's not noble and it's not heroic.


So, I guess the civil rights movement wasn't noble or heroic, right?

Are you also saying people can't call bullshit on the disadvantages they might have in society?

>>3477

>You're calling him a bigot but are just as bigoted. It's just hypocritical is all


You're just saying I'm a bigot because I am criticizing his opinion. Again, open forum, he put his opinion out there. I called it ridiculous.

And yes, I believe (Not, the word, believe) his view to be bigoted.

> But the point is mistreatment is subjective, there is no objective right or wrong way to treat people, no such thing as objective mistreatment. I can say treating people equally is mistreatment since people aren't equal and you're treating equal things as though they were the same.


Again, this is very simplified logic. This is technically true, because humans are just biological processes and that the universe is chaos and life is meaningless, blah blah blah.

At the same time, I'm pretty sure you don't want to be denied the right to your opinion. Or the right to good medical care. Or the right to an education. Or the ability to feed yourself and your family.

And from that idea, in feeling that I wouldn't want to be denied these things, I wouldn't want anyone else either, because I'm at least a good enough person to want other people to have the same rights as me.

>Not necessarily, equal distribution of wealth takes away from research to give to poor people who at best will work at Mcdonalds. It doesn't necessarily help progress


Possibly, but I'm mostly talking about equality in rights and opportunities, not so much in equal distribution of wealth. I still believe that you have to work to earn what you get. I just think people should all have equal footing in order to have the same chances.

>You're the one with 14 year old logic


"I know you are, but what am I?"

>Because now men's votes are worth less.


Who gives a shit? I mean, really.

And at least, our vote is worth as much as everyone elses. boo fucking hoo.

>And this wasn't a bad thing for slave owners?


Yes, it was, but the lives of their slaves should have never been in their hands to begin with. So, who fucking cares if it was fair to them?
They adapted and overcame, or they wasted away.

>Come on, Anon. Think. No seriously, think before you speak.


I could say the same for you.

>>3480

>The draft.


Oh my fucking God, enough with the draft.

No, I don't think the draft is right. It's one way men got shafted, but it doesn't just suddenly make men the oppressed ones. It also doesn't erase the fact that women were treated like shit for much longer then the idea of a draft was ever conceived.

Mostly, I think the Draft was tied to the idea that men were held up as defenders and it was their obligation. I think that's wrong and antiquated, but so is the idea that women are suppose to stay home and just be care givers.

Remember, it wasn't just the right to vote that was denied to women before Woman's suffrage.

>My reply to your comment.


Yup. And I still think that way. What you posted was stupid, and I didn't originally want to get into why it was so dumb. You can call it childish, smug, whatever.

I'm sorry that I don't usually give ridiculous opinions the time or day, I guess?

>Another post about the draft.


Again, not saying there weren't issues related to men at the time. I'm saying overall, women had the short straw.

And while there are issues in modern society that affect men, it's not like this one sided thing where men are completely disadvantaged. Granted, I think women have it pretty good as well, but there's a lot of problems on both sides that need fixing.

038ee6 No.3503

>>3502


Part two, apparently.

>>3481

>tolerance


I said it was 14 year old logic, because it sounded like something a 14 year old would say.

If I were telling him that he should not have this opinion then it would be intolerant of me. But no, again, this is a public forum meant to exchange ideas. He chose to share, and I chose to dismiss it. And am now choosing to explain why I dismiss it.

To go over for the slow people = I don't agree with him. I believe he has the right to his opinion (being tolerant) but I do not agree with him.


>The Draft


Explained this.

One disadvantage of a certain group doesn't just erase the disadvantages of others.

>Nice snark.


Ohbby, I'm all snark. You don't even know.

>Keeps mentioning the draft.

>Stopped reading this post.

Yeah, I think I'm done arguing this.


But

>>3483

I second this view of equality.

c2acc8 No.3505

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>>3502
>You're just saying I'm a bigot because I am criticizing his opinion.
No because how you criticized. It's clear you don't tolerate anon's opinion.

tol·er·ate
ˈtäləˌrāt/
verb

allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one does not necessarily like or agree with) without interference.

You are interfering by criticizing. Also the line between criticism and bigotry is sometimes hard to distinguish, so much so that it's indistinguishable. Often criticism is bigotry in of itself, why criticize something you tolerate? The whole point of criticism is to attack something perceived as problematic so to fix it (eliminate it). Hardly tolerant.

Bigot isn't a bad thing. You don't tolerate pedophiles I hope, well that's bigotry by definition.

>And yes, I believe (Not, the word, believe) his view to be bigoted.

Takes one to know one, I guess. Though we're all bigots as I see it. Though if anyone takes the bigot cake it is you. You're the one who is upset people disagree with you.

Me and this other anon don't agree on everything, I don't agree with the devil's advocate position I've taken in a few posts, but we're having a civil discourse while here you are resorting to preschool tier name-calling.

>And from that idea, in feeling that I wouldn't want to be denied these things, I wouldn't want anyone else either, because I'm at least a good enough person to want other people to have the same rights as me.

That's so fucking non-sequitur. You wanting something doesn't logically follow others should have it too. You can have rights that other don't have. Your logic is shit.

>"I know you are, but what am I?"

Yes, even children can figure out psychological projection.

>Who gives a shit? I mean, really.

Thank you for conceding.

>And at least, our vote is worth as much as everyone elses. boo fucking hoo.

More conceding. Also so what if our vote is equal? Whoopity shit. Your vote is worth less the more people get the same vote weight. You're the loser in this. You're practically a cuckold for democracy like these guys, pic related (though they're an extreme example).

>Yes, it was,

Even more conceding.

>but the lives of their slaves should have never been in their hands to begin with.

Why not? They were able to? Who are you to say what should and shouldn't be?

>So, who fucking cares if it was fair to them?

This is your idea of fairness. How about the fact that western civilization built through years of toil while the ancestors of these slaves and the slaves themselves rolled around in the dirt for centuries? Why is it fair that the descendents of western civilization get the same as the descendents of tribesmen? Your racist ancestors did things for you, not them. Westerners even purchased most of the slaves from African warlords.

Invoking fairness is silly, you might as well invoke some skywizard saying slavery is wrong, you'll get about as far.

>I could say the same for you.

Says the guy who conceded while believing he had an argument, and I have lab to go to now.

Peace, nigga.

9001c6 No.3510

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>>3502
>>3503

>The way it's presented comes off as a conspiracy.


No, that's the way you interpreted it. My opposition to the narrative of suffragettes being noble champions of equality makes you angry, and you are seeing red instead of seeing my arguments.

>But to completely deny any sort of good or progress by women's suffrage is to completely ignore history.


The opposite is true. Suffragettes were a very loud, obnoxious, riotous, and embarrassing subgroup of the suffragist movement, which campaigned for universal suffrage in western countries around the world, as in some countries, like Britain, it wasn't just gender that voting rights were based on, but also land ownership, so even men who could be drafted still wouldn't get the vote. The asinine behavior of the suffragettes, who frequently engaged in bar smashing and arson as well as regular assaults against men in public, acted as fuel for the arguments of those who opposed universal suffrage at the time. Opponents needed only point to the activities of the suffragettes and say "are these the kind of people you think should be voting?" If anything, the suffragettes set back universal suffrage in the countries where they were most active, not the other way around.

>It's not like women were like "Nah, we don't want to own land, vote, or get education. If you guys fight all of the wars, we'll let you guys have that."


Women were already owning land and getting educations prior to the success of the suffrage movement. The reason voting was such a struggle was because of how the supreme court treated cases brought against them involving the draft and how they tied it to voting rights, which set a very real legal precedent for tying voting to the draft. Did you think there were any women whom the suffragettes had to convince to lobby for the right to vote because those women just didn't want to vote for no reason? Those women had to be convinced that voting rights wouldn't come with the reciprocal obligation to be eligible for the draft, and it was a very hard sell, because most of the women leading the suffragette movement were rich upper-class white women, and everybody knows how susceptible rich people are to drafts. Working class women feared that the rich women who could easily draft dodge were just trying to throw them under the bus so that the rich women could vote along with the rich men and send the working women off to war along with the working class men. If it weren't for this fear, which was realistic given the legal precedent set by the US Supreme Court, the suffragettes wouldn't have had to make any case to women at all. Who would turn down privileges without obligations? Do you think those women were stupid?

>So, I guess the civil rights movement wasn't noble or heroic, right?


Everybody wants to be black in the victim olympics. If you've got any photos of cruddy drinking fountains labeled "women" next to pristine drinking fountains labeled "men," or if you can show me the buses which women were forced to stand up and walk to the back of to make room for new male passengers at the front, then feel free to provide them. Examples of actual second-class-citizen treatment would go a lot farther than platitudes, and before you get excited, remember that traditionalism does not equal oppression. Everybody had privileges which were counterbalanced by obligations. Listing off one side's obligations and the other side's privileges while ignoring their respective reciprocal counterparts is blatant intellectual dishonesty. If you forget this, we can go through it line-by-line based on your grievances.

>Are you also saying people can't call bullshit on the disadvantages they might have in society?


You're seeing red again. Lobbying for one's own political advancement is not noble. It's simple an act of self-interest, which is morally neutral. Not especially evil or good. It is worthy of neither shame nor praise.

>And yes, I believe (Not, the word, believe) his view to be bigoted.


But you haven't established any foundation for this belief. You're just saying that I'm bigoted, but you aren't substantiating that stance with any supporting information whatsoever. It all appears to just boil down to "bash suffragettes, therefore misogynist" in your eyes.

>Or the right to good medical care. Or the right to an education. Or the ability to feed yourself and your family.


None of these are rights, not even in the naive inalienable sense. Nobody has an inherent right to things which are not free. This mentality can only lead to total economic collapse and subsequent annexation into a fiscally superior society.

9001c6 No.3511

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>>3502
>>3503

>but I'm mostly talking about equality in rights and opportunities


But you redefine "rights" to include things which cost money, and that means someone is going to have to pay for it, and that someone isn't going to be you. It's going to be everyone, as mandated by you. You are just repackaging entitlement spending and welfare as "human rights," which is enormously manipulative and dishonest.

>I still believe that you have to work to earn what you get.


No you don't. You think people should have their healthcare and education paid for by other people. You absolutely do not think people should have to work to earn what they get. Saying that you do does not change this.

>Who gives a shit [that men's votes are worth less]? I mean, really.


Your open disdain for men and their value does not do you any favors when it comes to the question of who is the bigot in this conversation.

>And at least, our vote is worth as much as everyone elses. boo fucking hoo.


No, actually a woman's vote is worth more than a man's, because he has to pay for his right to vote by being eligible for conscription. She does not. Her vote has as much value without conscription as his does with conscription. This is basic economics. If a man's vote has to be supplemented by an additional form of value in order to reach the same value as a woman's vote, then the man's vote is literally worth less than a woman's vote.

>Oh my fucking God, enough with the draft.


Your disdain for issues which negatively affect men makes you look like a bigot. If a man were to say "Oh my fucking God, enough about the vote," I doubt you would have gentle words for him in reply. What you are saying here is "women's needs matter more than men's needs do."

>It's one way men got shafted, but it doesn't just suddenly make men the oppressed ones.


Now you are ignoring the most important aspect of the vote/draft argument. The US Supreme Court set a precedent which tied the two together. They are inseparable concepts. You cannot talk about one or the other in a vacuum. You cannot just play it off like being subject to the draft is just some random mildly shitty thing but not really worthy of attention. The draft was, and remains, inseparable from suffrage. The suffragettes circumvented this and secured two privileges for women (freedom from the draft and the right to vote) with no reciprocal obligations, meanwhile men had been and are continuing to pay for their right to vote with the draft. You cannot divide and conquer these concept separately from one another as long as this is the case.

>Mostly, I think the Draft was tied to the idea that men were held up as defenders and it was their obligation.


Well, you're wrong. The legal precedent in US law made it very clear that the draft was tied to the right to vote.

>I think that's wrong and antiquated, but so is the idea that women are suppose to stay home and just be care givers.


There is no legal precedent enforcing the notion that women should be housewives in western law. Absolutely none. At all.

>Remember, it wasn't just the right to vote that was denied to women before Woman's suffrage.


Not that you'll point out any rights which were denied to women by the legal system. I guess I'm just supposed to Listen and Believe.

>Yup. And I still think that way. What you posted was stupid, and I didn't originally want to get into why it was so dumb. You can call it childish, smug, whatever. I'm sorry that I don't usually give ridiculous opinions the time or day, I guess?


Not doing yourself any favors here. Just calling someone's argument dumb and stupid over and over again is inadvisable in a serious debate between adults.

9001c6 No.3512

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>>3502
>>3503

>I'm saying overall, women had the short straw.


Not that you'll substantiate that claim with any supporting information. I guess I'll just have to Listen and Believe again.

>And while there are issues in modern society that affect men, it's not like this one sided thing where men are completely disadvantaged. Granted, I think women have it pretty good as well, but there's a lot of problems on both sides that need fixing.


Empty statement. You make allusions to issues that you either don't actually know about or aren't willing to put forward as examples. You are hiding behind vagaries and shying away from details. This is classic narrative building. Why argue a case when you could just build a narrative and repeat it ad infinitum?

>I said it was 14 year old logic, because it sounded like something a 14 year old would say.


Not that you'll explain why that is, but then I guess I should just be used to unsubstantiated statements from you by now. You don't like to support any of your other conclusions, why should I expect you to start now?

>He chose to share, and I chose to dismiss it.


Well at least we're approaching honesty.

>The Draft

>Explained this.

More like "dodged it."

…ba-dm-tsh!

>One disadvantage of a certain group doesn't just erase the disadvantages of others.


Until I forced you to at least acknowledge the draft, you were content to suggest that society was built for the white man. You were so focused on pushing the narrative of women's oppression that you did completely erase any notion that men weren't living it up at everyone else's expense. If you're going to push a platitude you learned in your gender studies classes, you should at least try to follow it.

>Yeah, I think I'm done arguing this.


You cannot dodge the issue of the draft so easily. It is a critical component of the discussion on suffrage. It is legally bound to voting rights for men to this day. Suffrage and conscription are inseparable. No amount of frustration on your part will make the draft irrelevant to suffrage.

> I second this view of equality.


No, you really don't. You think people who have money should be forced to pay for services such as healthcare and education for people who don't have money. That is not equality under the law.

038ee6 No.3522

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>>3512

I like how you think you know my beliefs from a few posts.

You know who else do that? Feminists. SWJ

But again, no longer arguing this. Because I don't care. And there's more productive things I could be doing.

9001c6 No.3534

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>>3522

>I like how you think you know my beliefs from a few posts.


Well, you stated what they were. The problem you are having is that you are mislabeling your own political stances to make them sound more agreeable in theory than they really are in practice.

>You know who else do that? Feminists. SWJ


My experience has been that SJWs usually call other people bigots right out the gate and refuse to engage in arguments where they are weak or uncomfortable. They especially like to rely on narratives, particularly threat and victim narratives.

>But again, no longer arguing this. Because I don't care.


That much is apparent. Your crippling impatience and poor attention span are probably the largest contributing factors to your worldview. It's much simpler to absorb and restate platitudes so you can pat yourself on the back about what a good person you are than it is to do the drudge work of getting down in the weeds to sort out the messy world of politics even if it means you have to unearth and accept some ugly truths about the world.

It's boring, it's difficult, and it's time consuming. And all along the way, lazy sophists will sling mud at you to make themselves feel superior.

Go ahead and enjoy those productive things you could be doing. Not that you'll state what any of them are. Far be it from you to substantiate a claim, as always.

038ee6 No.3538

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>>3534

Well, for one, I never called you bigoted. I called your viewpoint bigoted.

But really dude, I have explained this. I've wanted to move on from this, but maybe if I try to take a different approach, you'll see where I'm coming from. Or just be a condescending prick again. Probably the latter.

I also have a problem with letting shit go. It happens.

Here's one more time trying to explain why bringing up the draft is meaningless:

>There were still problems with gender inequality even after women could vote.

Like, marital rape. Which wasn't recognized until the 1970's.

>This is only one problem in regards to gender that men faced at the time.

Seriously - Men probably have more problems now then they did at that time.

>It probably wasn't recognized as a problem.

I don't really remember reading much about opposition to conscription (in the US) until the Vietnam War. Correct me if I'm wrong, though.


>conscription has mostly been legislated by men.

Considering that most women at the time could NOT participate in politics at the time, I find what you say pretty funny, as it would have been men who okayed this imbalance.

Or wait, was it the gracious men who allowed women to do nothing and not have opinions?


>Men were more worried about women having opinions then they were about the draft at the time.

Again, I have to point this out - It wasn't like women just accepted to not be drafted so they didn't have to do anything. Men at that time thought they were incapable of fighting in wars, or even being in politics.

Being able to vote meant they could influence politics, and some men didn't want that. Look at some of the anti-Suffragette propaganda and you see that sort of mentality seep through.

>Draft is now a non-issue.

Most developed countries no longer have the draft. So, even if this was a problem at the time (it was, I am against conscription, personally), most developed countries have gotten rid of it.

>Many women want to take part in the military.

Throughout history, there's women who had to disguise themselves as men just to serve. Over the years, we've had more and more women serve in the military. Shit - even when the draft ended, women started signing up left and right for armed service.

That isn't really an argument for feminists at the time, but it is evidence that there are women who do want to serve, and are willing to.

Look, no one is saying that women's suffrage did all good. But they opened the door to issues that needed to be talked about, but they had their problems to. Like the racism.


I'll level with you and concede that I was being an asshole, but I'm not gonna sit here and pretend I think anything of your opinion. You have your right to it, I'm not gonna tell you not to have it, but I've yet to see any reason to respect it.

038ee6 No.3539

>>3534


Also, really: if you're making the claim that history has been white washed, then shouldn't you be providing the proof here?

9001c6 No.3541

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>>3538

Well then, let's get into it.

>Like, marital rape. Which wasn't recognized until the 1970's.


So since we're talking about inequality, how about that definition of rape? The FBI one which defined it as "carnal knowledge of a woman's body" until the 21st century, and less than ten years ago at that! So, how about that equality, eh? Equality is still what we're talking about, and not just the advancement of women, right?

>I don't really remember reading much about opposition to conscription (in the US) until the Vietnam War.


It was limited to anarchists and other very small groups of lobbyists. Suffice to say, they didn't get anywhere due to their lack of significant public support. Nobody even remembers the 1918 ruling. You even try mentioning it to someone and they want you to start citing your sources (>>3539) even though they have absolutely no problem swallowing pro-suffragette narratives and don't ask for any sources to prove any of that.

This is called confirmation bias, by the way. You should familiarize yourself with it. It's what makes you demand higher standards of evidence for claims that you oppose than for claims that you support.

>Considering that most women at the time could NOT participate in politics at the time,


If women "could not participate in politics" then the suffragettes would have been a completely impotent entity in western politics. That they weren't should highlight the absurdity of suggesting that women didn't have any political power in western societies. Even today, political power is gained mostly through lobbying, not through voting. Why do you think it would have been much different a hundred years ago? In fact, women lobbying and getting their way in politics goes back even farther than that. A particularly egregious example can be seen in the 1674 campaign by British women, who petitioned their government to ban coffee houses. The ban was enacted in 1675. Like prohibition in America (which was also spearheaded by women and their political power), it has since been repealed, but it stands to show how much political change women can force through in their respective societies when they lock arms and launch a campaign of political activism for it. The notion of women being locked out of the political process is more whitewashing of history.

>Being able to vote meant they could influence politics, and some men didn't want that. Look at some of the anti-Suffragette propaganda and you see that sort of mentality seep through.


Given the suffragettes' proclivity for the commission of bar smashing, arson, and public mob violence, can you really blame them? Suffragettes were behaving like tantrum-throwing children en masse, causing a great deal of property damage and personal injury, primarily directed against men. One could hardly be faulted for opposing suffragettes due to their behavior.

In addition, western countries were embroiled in a horrific war at the time when the suffragette movement rose to its height. Political strife, especially of the riot-inducing variety, gets encouraged by secret agents of foreign powers during wartime, and the first world war was a spectacular example of this happening. The Germans transported Lenin to Russia to encourage the Bolsheviks to enact their revolution, and we all know how that went. In Britain, German agents dealt with the Irish in the hopes of getting them to rebel against the UK as well, though that didn't work out for them as it had in Russia.

So when you've got another violent, riotous movement stirring up in your country, what do you think the authorities are going to view it as? Likely another attempt by your enemies to stir unrest at home so that they can weaken you at the front. Meanwhile, you had communists and revolutionaries trying to overthrow governments wherever they could. And then you've got rich, politically active women claiming that their governments are oppressing them and they're setting fire to buildings and smashing shit up. In this political climate, how seriously would you take them?

9001c6 No.3542

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>>3538

>Most developed countries no longer have the draft.


America still does. That's a pretty huge discrepancy. They are the most powerful nation with the most powerful military in the first world. NATO and the UN relies on their military might to get anything done. And it wasn't until Vietnam that the draft became a bad political move for those in charge in western governments. So while women were voting with privilege from 1920, men were still earning their right to vote in the Pacific theater, north Africa, and Fortress Europe, then freezing to death while being butchered in the Chosin reservoir, then being ambushed and slaughtered over and over again in the jungles of Vietnam only to return home to a crowd of booing, hissing hippies who spat upon them.

This draft business? You don't get to handwave it away, no matter how annoying it is as a thorn in your side. Real, terrible suffering has been caused to millions of men due to the draft, over a much longer period of time than the brief window in which men in western countries could vote while women couldn't. It's not an insignificant detail, and I'll thank you not to minimalize it or shift the blame for it onto men as a gender, especially in light of Britain's White Feather campaign, a policy whereby women would publicly shame men not in military uniforms by pinning white feathers of cowardice to them, which suffragettes in the UK enthusiastically participated in. Let us not toy with the ridiculous notion that only men wanted men to be conscripted to fight and die in the trenches. The very same women who were agitating for their own voting rights were wholly complicit in campaigns to shame men into the trenches during the most horrific war the world has ever seen. And you say that it is meaningless to even bring this up. For shame.

>Throughout history, there's women who had to disguise themselves as men just to serve.


And now you bring me stories which appear more frequently in novels than in real life. As if there has historically been a huge swell of women who have all been clawing at military service only to be held back by sexism. There's a claim I'd like to see substantiated. I'm sure I'll only get outlier data at best, and unverifiable anecdotes at worst.

>Over the years, we've had more and more women serve in the military.


And it's always been as those positions became safe enough for women to participate in without tremendous fear of being killed or maimed. Women were capable of locking arms when they wanted to campaign for the banning of coffee houses, alcohol, and for their own voting rights, so what took women so long to get themselves into the infantry? The Patriarchy, perhaps? They've just been fighting so hard to get into the most dangerous positions in the military and it's just those big bad sexist men who have been holding them back? That patriarchy sure is selectively effective at keeping women down.

Where were the suffragettes campaigning to get bayoneted rifles in their hands and helmets on their heads? Where were all these women who were clawing at the chance to jump into the trenches and eat bullets and artillery shells? Or were they mostly serving in administrative and medical offices, leaving the bitter frontline fighting to the men?

>>3539

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=suffragette+arson
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=suffragette+bar+smashing
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=suffragette+violence

Honestly, two of these results bring you almost immediately to this article: http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm

Do you just not google key words when other people are arguing against you? It saves a lot of time. Do you want me to google other things for you, like the 1674/1675 Coffee House Petition and subsequent ban, the 1918 ruling on conscription, or the White Feather campaign?

In the future, when someone uses a word or phrase which is capitalized and you are unfamiliar with it, or when someone references dates or court cases, maybe you should try looking them up instead of demanding to be spoon-fed. Learning all of these things took a lot of my personal time. I don't know why it's too much to ask that you punch a couple of terms into a search engine and skim through a handful of the results.

44d04f No.3544

File: 1425548655985.jpg (55.24 KB, 500x375, 4:3, third-wave-feminism.jpg)

>Atheists don't hate feminists.
>Atheists hate third wave feminists.
They made the word "feminist" a negative thing.

9001c6 No.3545

>>3544

Speak for yourself. I've been spending the majority of this thread making the case that the suffragettes weren't "good feminists" any more than modern third wavers are.

But that's the power of repetition in a narrative. Say something often enough and everyone will just believe it.

7bd447 No.3551

>>3544
Honestly, I don't see the problem with women having sex all the time as long as their partner is okay with it, same for men.

Now being all in your face, holding up a sign and being annoying about this however…

f33013 No.3559

File: 1425586351579.jpg (126.12 KB, 1023x328, 1023:328, 1383909523829.jpg)

>>3312
%99.999999 of them are pro-censorship assholes and slacktivist snowflakes

I'll agree rape is terrible, and women are treated bad in 3rd world countries, but most first world feminists are just ugly cunts whining that nobody wants to tap their 800lbs ass

Also a lot of them are post modernists. Pic related

038ee6 No.3560

File: 1425587854720.png (1.28 MB, 1360x768, 85:48, esoifhwoeifhaoihef.png)

>>3542

>America still does


America still does selective service registration, but it doesn't currently do the draft. It hasn't had a draft in well over 40 years. I don't know if you're from America or not, so I'm not gonna give you shit for not knowing this - but even though we do have that, it's not really heavily enforced.

I mean shit, there was a war in the past 10 years, and yet no draft happened. All volunteer military.America just puts way too much emphases on patriotism and the idea that defending your country is noble and just.


>Real, terrible suffering has been caused to millions of men due to the draft


As opposed to the millions of innocent women and children that died in wartime? See, I can do that too.

But in all seriousness, the reason why the Draft is a terrible argument is because it was a policy made by men, and one that people didn't really have a problem with until much later. The feminists who wanted the vote didn't have any control over the draft, nor any woman prior, and voting wasn't the only problem women faced at that time.

>So since we're talking about inequality, how about that definition of rape?


Really? You're going the "you're gonna have to define that term for me" route?

Yeah I'm done.
This time I think I am. Got better things to do.

Pic related, it's my better things. We can still talk anon, but I'm not gonna sit here and watch this argument continue to go in circles anymore.

9001c6 No.3572

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>>3560

>America still does selective service registration, but it doesn't currently do the draft.


Ah, because the low likelihood of being drafted into a war since Vietnam means that there's nothing bad about being lawfully required to sign into selective service, right?

Now, what would have happened if you had researched this point, and most importantly, its possible counterpoints, before you tried to argue this case?

Well, you might have run a search on something like this:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=penalties+for+refusing+selective+service

Which would have led you to the following page as your third result:

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090703171440AAUQX3z

In which the fourth response was as follows:

"The maximum penalty for failing to register with Selective Service is a $250,000 fine and up to five years in prison. Failure to register will cause ineligibility for a number of federal and state benefits including federal jobs, student aid, federal job training, state jobs and training. Plus, most states have added additional penalties for those who fail to register with Selective Service."

Source: http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/wars/a/draft2.htm

This takes less than two minutes. It is that easy to conduct research on the subject you are arguing about. I don't know how to make this easier for you.

And to bring us back to the primary point in this argument, remember that we are debating the integrity of the suffragettes and their reputation as noble champions of equality and fair treatment of the sexes. It is telling that, a hundred years after their campaigns, men still do not have equal voting rights to them, but remember, the main point I made, with which you found reason to object, was that suffragettes were not some heroic band of "good" feminists whose good intentions have since been despoiled by second and third wave feminists. They were just as disinterested in equality rather than female advancement as the current feminists are, it's just that we aren't comfortable with acknowledging that and prefer to whitewash history to make them into heroes rather than self-interested and violent political activists. We pedestalize the suffragettes and we wrong history in so doing.

>As opposed to the millions of innocent women and children that died in wartime? See, I can do that too.


American women never suffered occupation by a foreign force. Neither did British women, and these were the countries who were drafting their men and sending them into the trenches while their suffragettes were lobbying to get voting rights without the reciprocal obligation to be subject to conscription. I don't see the relevance of the threat of occupation to the activities of the suffragettes in either of these countries. This just looks like a play of victim olympics as a response to the horror of conscription into early twentieth century war.

9001c6 No.3573

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>>3560

>But in all seriousness, the reason why the Draft is a terrible argument is because it was a policy made by men,


Do you agree with everything your government does, let alone consent to it, because you can vote? Can you be held personally accountable for your government's policies because you have that power? If not, how is what you're doing here anything other than victim blaming? I really hate to use the term, but what else would you call it? You're saying that men were asking for it and doing it to themselves; that the draft was a male-created and male-enforced invention. The mind boggles, especially in light of the information I presented to you about the White Feather movement and suffragettes who actively lobbied in favor of conscription while campaigning to secure their own voting rights. Did you just not read any of that? I am lost as to how you could have ingested that information and still came out thinking that women had no political power or that suffragettes did not have a role in upholding the draft.

>Really? You're going the "you're gonna have to define that term for me" route?


No, you just didn't read what I wrote. You skimmed the first sentence, made an assumption, and ignored the rest of it. There's no other way you could have bypassed the point by such a wide margin. I'll try to make this very clear for you.

You cited marital rape not being recognized under US law until the 1970s as an example of inequality between the sexes in America. There are two obvious rebuttals to this. The one I gave you explicitly was that the FBI did not even allow for the possibility of men to be rape victims at all based on their definition of rape being "the carnal knowledge of a woman's body" until a few years ago, in the 21st century. The second, which I neglected to state but should have been obvious, is that the lack of a law regarding marital rape is not a sexually discriminatory oversight in the legal system, because neither the wife nor the husband could make a legal claim to have been raped by their spouse. The lack of a legal recognition of marital rape isn't even unequal treatment of the sexes on its own.

It is, quite plainly, not an example of sexual inequality under the law. Both spouses were unprotected from marital rape. It's a total non-starter to argue otherwise.

Look, I know I'm pretty verbose, but it takes a lot of time out of my day to research and write out these arguments. It takes a lot less time for you to just read them in whole rather than just skimming the headlines and immediately jumping to conclusions. I think I have been more than fair to you in reading the entirety of your posts and responding to every single one of your points. It's getting frustrating to be presenting you with information and arguments only to see most of them ignored and to see you descend from hard details and facts into vagaries like this:

>and voting wasn't the only problem women faced at that time.


Please stop doing this. Not just in this argument, but in future ones with other people as well. It is not fair to your opponent for you to make vague truth claims which are too slippery to pin down while you ignore their detailed and specific examples whose sources can be easily researched.

038ee6 No.3580


>>3573

>Look, I know I'm pretty verbose, but it takes a lot of time out of my day to research and write out these arguments.


If it takes so much time out of your day to write up arguments against anonymous people online, then you should probably stop.

The main reason why I'm not going to sit here and address anymore of your points is I simply don't care to. I tried, but I don't really have the time or the drive to do so. Plus we can both find better things to do with our time aside from argue about shit on the internet.

So good for you being the winner, I guess. You beat a lazy guy whose more interested in playing MMOs then arguing with you.

9001c6 No.3581

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>>3580

Did you, though? Did you really make an effort? Because it looks to me like you were content to parrot platitudes and narratives with which you've become comfortable, and you completely rejected the introduction of new information with which you were completely unfamiliar and which contradicted your previous conclusions.

If you don't give a fuck, then what are you even doing? Why bother saying that you are in favor of gender equality when it's nothing more than an agreeable-sounding declaration to you? Why, if you actually care about sexism, do you resist information which illustrates that some of the people you voice support for have also demonstrated sexist behavior themselves?

Is the realization that you've been supporting the wrong people in the name of equality too much to bear? If it makes you angry, why direct that anger at me? I'm just the messenger. You should be angry at the people who lied to you and whitewashed history to convince you that a group of selfish, sexist political activists were heroes of human rights. You should feel cheated by the narrative you were indoctrinated with and the information which was withheld from you by the people who were in control of your education.

Why? Why struggle to maintain cognitive dissonance? What do you have to gain that is worth a flat rejection of the facts? Why fight so hard to continue being wrong?

d554ca No.13948

>>3312

>Try to resume why not all movement is bad and where exactly shit went wrong.

>Take a while as some IRL things kept stopping me from writting a coherent argument.

>Finally post it in the wrong thread about ex religious peeps. Sink head in shame.

>Come back and see there's a war already on.

Look niggers, saying that feminism is the same everywhere is like saying every atheist has a uniform ideology or the same pollitical stance, it's just not possible.

It's frankly disturbing that people won't archknowledge the fact that women actually getting off their asses, going to work and voting is a GOOD thing. We know that SJWs are fucking everything up, we get it, that doesn't mean that full /pol/ is right by default and we should go back to keep women ignorant dependent and behind closed doors. It's not even the vote, we know voting doesn't do CRAP in the long run, it's the fact that the vote forces people to start being responsible about their shit, seeing how their decisions have consequences sometimes beyond their control.

And remember that not every feminist or woman is murican or dutch. Even the crazy spaniards actually pushed to make military service obligatory for them too, and to serve in infantry with the same tests applied to men, while mexican ones where asking for men to have right to inherit half their wife's pension if she died.

I don't know even how to close this post.


2127b4 No.13950

File: 1455167678604.jpg (17.17 KB, 236x356, 59:89, pet.jpg)

>>13948

Eh, I would rather move to Japan and have a submissive housewife than a feminist. I was suckered into equality as a kid, but then I visited /d/ and said forget that. If women can be conditioned to be happy serving their men then why not spare myself of American bitchiness? I want to collar and own a pet sub.


d554ca No.13951

>>13950

Japanese women can vote, they can go to work and shit. If they choose not to, or to limit their hours, or just to suck your dick, that's ok too because it's a choice. I'd rather have it in their cultural values than in actual law.

I mean find yourself a woman to be your sub maine, that's your right.

Besides it's not as if your murican bitch wasn't able to be conditioned, it would take you a little more time but that's it.


9b1cdf No.13959

Fuck off kike


a78bb8 No.13968

>>13950

>in my country all women are feminist bitches, that's why I don't have one

>but foreign women would pay to suck my dick

don't be so fucking delusional. how old are you?


b03c73 No.14290

Because women are not equal to men and thus don't deserve the same or more rights.


82fc3d No.14291

>>14290

Then you are obviously a woman because you post is quiet stupid.


c36cd2 No.14292

>>14290

Equal in what way? Doing what needs to be done? Birthing children, taking care of them, and for some getting jobs, etc. Women do what needs to be done to get by, just as we do. In your small world and small brain, maybe they're not equal to what you consider important in life but most mothers, especially if you look back in history in rural areas, they had strenuous duties just the same.

So many of you idiots think what's important to you and what's valid to you is what's objectively valid and equal. I get tired of the feminist bullshit too but at least here, it's the opposite, I find so much masculist bullshit that I make sure they know some truths, lest people like you wind up saying shit like that in the real world and looking like an idiot. I know it's edgy these days to be contrarian among the kids like it was edgy before to be a feminist, but you'll grow up one day and realize like most kids with part of a brain that you've said some stupid shit in the past.

Sage, as always for these trollish christkid threads.


a78bb8 No.14295

>>14290

but you and I are unequal too


3ddfc2 No.14300

>>13948

But atheism isn't an ideology, it's a lack of one. Meanwhile feminism is garbage because it is an ideology and ideologies are garbage. Packaged ideas (ideologies) are for idiots who cannot think for themselves.


1030e6 No.14304

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Because (sjw) feminists are fringe-tier gnostics who ideology lives or dies on their supposed "secret knowledge" of being X. If you happen to be X and disagree with their dogma, its because you've been fooled into self-hatred by the Demiurgos- er, I mean by the Jews- fuck, I really mean by the colonialist patriarchal blah blah blah shits.


9de6ea No.14313

Atheists hate feminists? More like atheists are feminists.


f28cdc No.14315

>>14313

The did suveys within MRA's communities, so people that despise feminism so much that they organized to form their own political movements against it, and they came back with rates like 95% Atheist.

But well, what can I say. You made it clear in numerous posts that you have no idea, simply about anything. And the only thing you can do is throw aroud completely baseless smears.


9de6ea No.14320

>>14315

Yeah, and 100% of mass murderers named Joseph Stalin are also atheists, therefore all atheists are mass murderers like Joseph Stalin.

Try again.


32ce17 No.14325

>>3313

>can't trigger the giger


32ce17 No.14326

>>14315

>The did suveys within MRA's communities, so people that despise feminism so much that they organized to form their own political movements against it, and they came back with rates like 95% Atheist.

That doesn't suggest that atheists hate feminists. It suggests that people who hate feminists are likely to be atheists.


f28cdc No.14338

>>14326

>That doesn't suggest that atheists hate feminists.

I'm not sure why you are getting thid from.

It was only meant to show that an absolute statement like 'all atheists are feminists' is wrong.


63e073 No.14400

I dont hate feminists, I hate Idealogs, and unfortunately, a lot of feminists are Idealogs.


d5cbad No.14401

>>14400

Where do you differentiate between ideology and holding to a set of principles? I have never met someone who had no values.


63e073 No.14404

File: 1456964018320.jpg (40.34 KB, 183x276, 61:92, 51802045.jpg)

>>14401

I didnt say I was against ideology, I said I was against ideologues.

ideologue: an adherent of an ideology, especially one who is uncompromising and dogmatic.

also no, not all people adhere to an ideology. The definition of the word ideology is thus: a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. holding a set of personal principles that one has come to through life experience, thier own cognition, and or their own biases is not having an ideology. An ideology, as defined above, is a SYSTEM of ideas that involve political or economic theory. Feminism is many different and often conflicting ideologies that often contradict each other under the same label. however most feminist values and concepts demand that you support a system of predetermined and often largely unsupported claims solely on the basis that they support the rest of the system. This is what separates an ideology from a gaggle of ideas and ideals a person has come to of their own fruition/experience.

An ideology demands that a person believe claims for the rest of the ideology to be true. for Marxism it is that holding private property is the root of all evil. For most forms of Christianity, it is that human beings are innately sinful and must turn to god to be pure. For most (not all) feminist ideologies it is that men and or white/straight men have and will always be the oppressors and women/minorities have been and will always be the oppressed.

a non ideological person can have any opinion economically or socially, and can change or have any combination of these opinions without having them be supported on any central unchanging underling principle or having them rely on each other. For instance a person can be completely for gay marriage, but also for business's being able to choose whether or not they service gay weddings, such as myself. just because I am for gay marriage does not mean I am for forcing businesses to service gay weddings, however if under feminism I espoused the later opinion I would be lynched and excommunicated among a myriad of other vile things simply for holding an opinion that goes against the flow of the ideological current.

Again, not all feminists are ideologues (like Christina Hoff summers for instance) but a lot of them are, enough to be a problem that is surfacing in universities, media outlets, and even government in some cases. The feminists that try to force their own ideology onto other people through social, political, or moral pressure are the Ideologues, and these are the people I hate. If you could quit straw manning and actually comprehend what the people in this thread are saying that would be swell.


4d8fea No.14405

>>14404

It's great to see you have an ideology against ideologies and found a way to feel superior about it.

As Nietzsche would say, careful you don't become the monster you fight. Just give it up. There's plenty of people who may ideologies of kindness. They're no harm, there's no reason to be against them. No everyone who holds an ideology is bad and not every ideology is bad.

The same can be said with masculists, feminists, atheists, theists, etc. You're trying to paint a stripe with a brush wide as the world.


857a86 No.14406

>>14404

>a non ideological person can have any opinion economically or socially, and can change or have any combination of these opinions without having them be supported on any central unchanging underling principle or having them rely on each other.

Sounds like a recipe for inconsistency & hypocrisy. What you're saying is "If I come up with my own system of beliefs and wrote a book on economics and political thought that I clung to, that's fine and not dogmatic. Yet, if I happen to subscribe tightly to the same beliefs held by someone else then I'm an "idealogue" and shouldn't be taken seriously.

I also think you've oversimplified Marxism.


63e073 No.14475

>>14405

"It's great to see you have an ideology against ideologies and found a way to feel superior about it." nope, an ideology is a system of ideals and ideas. my one ideal against ideologys is not a system nor is it reliant on any other of my ideas so by definition you are wrong.

"As Nietzsche would say, careful you don't become the monster you fight. Just give it up. There's plenty of people who may ideologies of kindness. They're no harm, there's no reason to be against them. No everyone who holds an ideology is bad and not every ideology is bad." so apparently because there are good nazis who dont advocate for killing people and just want to talk about their nazism, I shouldn't dislike nazism. Now, because there are good Islamists that dont go and blow up buildings with their children, I shouldn't dislike Islamists. hey guys, Islam is a religion of peace you know? thats why they're constantly blowing themselves up and going holy crusades, but its kindness and peace so you shouldn't argue against Islam. and apparently because I argue against certain systems of belief and the idea of systems of belief in general I am now as automatically as bad as the thing as im arguing for no defined reason. wow solid arguments created by other people, really solid and not at all bankrupt and lacking in substance

you can sit there and quote people smarter than you all day rather than have an argument, but it doesn't make them or you right. you actually have to have substance to your arguments for them to be valid.

"The same can be said with masculists, feminists, atheists, theists, etc." Congratulations, you have turned ideology into a meaningless word. theism, and atheism by DEFINITION are not ideologys, they are singular stances on a singular subject. they are not reliant nor do they rely on any other belief a person holds. The only thing you know about a person when they say they are atheist is thier position on religion in general. You dont know what they think of spiritualism, you dont know anything about thier political leanings, you dont know jack shit about any other aspect of that person other than they dont take stock in religion. If that is an ideology to you then your definition of ideology is an idea. youre trying to frame me as against ideas. could you quit straw manning and actually come up with an argument please? I am against systems of beliefs and those who adhere to them. This is one opinion and not a system of opinions, so by definition it is not the thing im arguing against. please stop the idiocy of trying to turn my point against me, when you cant even understand my point.

also the whole "oh there are good people in ideologys" does not validate ideologys. Just cause there are good nazis, does not mean I shouldn't argue against nazism. just because there are good Maoists doesn't mean I shouldnt argue against Maoism. the same applies to feminists. I understand there are GOOD feminists and not all of them are bad, which is why in my previous post I put "Again, not all feminists are ideologues (like Christina Hoff summers for instance) but a lot of them are, enough to be a problem that is surfacing in universities, media outlets, and even government in some cases". Its almost like you didnt read what I said.


63e073 No.14476

>>14406

"Sounds like a recipe for inconsistency & hypocrisy" and believing in a system of principles/beliefs dogmatically so the rest of the system doesn't fall apart doesn't lead to hypocrisy? real intelligent argument there buddy.

"What you're saying is 'If I come up with my own system of beliefs and wrote a book on economics and political thought that I clung to, that's fine and not dogmatic." no, the definition of dogmatic is inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true. So by clinging to a system of beliefs, regardless of if they are yours or someone elses is ideological. If each idea is reliant on another idea in the system, then you have created an ideology. an ideology is almost impossible to modify without the aid of the authority of said ideology.

for instance, unless the pope comes out and says that god is ok with gay people and adultery, arguing with a catholic about it is like arguing with a brick wall, because they must hold that belief or they are not being a good catholic. them being good in the eyes of god relies on them believing all the words of god. You can argue with a feminist all day about the faulty studies that support their wage gap theory, they will not budge regardless of how much evidence you provide or how good your arguments are, because they must believe that otherwise a huge talking point of feminism falls apart and they will not be a good feminist in the eyes of other feminists. This is the main reason im against ideology, because it promotes believing ideas regardless of if they are actually supported solely on the basis that they are required to support the rest of the system.

ideologues, should be taken very seriously and argued against on public forums whenever the opportunity presents itself. The only way to stop the spread of an ideology, is to point out how fucking stupid it is to the people not already indoctrinated.

"I also think you've oversimplified Marxism" I wasn't trying to explain Marxism, I was explaining a central tenant of Marxism that must be believed for the rest of the system to make sense.




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