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Civic Justice

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Sun May 13, 2018, 09:46 AM May 2018

"When one is accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression" [View all]

Angry young white men, the “incel rebellion” and an age of worldwide reaction
White supremacists, online misogynists and the rise of the far right: How to fight a rising tide of resentment

https://www.salon.com/2018/05/12/angry-young-white-men-the-incel-rebellion-and-an-age-of-worldwide-reaction/


Women should keep ignoring them.... She know she is no longer willing to be treated like a possession!!!

whether it’s alt-right white supremacists marching in Charlottesville with their tiki torches, misogynist “incels” and men’s rights activists who believe feminism is the root of all their problems, or Islamic extremists who aim to restore the caliphate, one thing is constant: they are overwhelmingly male.

It is hardly surprising that men are more susceptible to the allure of reactionary politics, considering that it's much easier for men to romanticize the past than it is for women (or any previously oppressed or mistreated group, such as LGBTQ people). Patriarchy has long been the norm in Western and non-Western societies and cultures, and thus women are less inclined to feel nostalgic for some “golden age” in history when they were treated as second-class citizens.
Needless to say, in America there is another important factor that increases the likelihood of one adopting a reactionary political ideology: being white. This was evidenced in a recent Pew Research Center analysis, which found that although millennials are the most progressive generation (and lean overwhelmingly Democratic), white male millennials are more more likely to support the Republican Party.

Women are tired of the frequency of being beaten, mutilated, and having her children raped and families being mass killed, because the men can't any longer have the "privilege and dominance" that was once promoted in America.

This victim mentality that many white men have developed today stems in part from what sociologist Michael Kimmel has called “aggrieved entitlement,” which he describes as “that sense of entitlement that can no longer be assumed and that is unlikely to be fulfilled.”

“There are still many in this generation of men who feel cheated by the end of entitlement,” Kimmel writes in his book “Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era.” “They still feel entitled, and thus they identify socially and politically with those above them, even as they have economically joined the ranks of those who have historically been below them.”

While Trump has never had a clear political ideology, he personifies a bitter reactionary anger that so many white males have come to feel in a society where women, people of color and sexual minorities are finally being granted equal rights and opportunities. “When one is accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression,” and today more and more white men in America (and Europe) feel as if they are being oppressed by egalitarian forces like feminism, multiculturalism, gay rights and the like.


They need to learn how to live in society, and set their mind to doing their own work, and not expecting to profit off of the labors of others, and stop thinking that women need to submit to him, because he is white and may have money.

Yes, that 400+ yrs of being trained to be a user and abuser, is coming to a head... and they can't deal with it, they can't deal with equality.

No one is going to go backwards in society, just to appease the weak minded self consumed delusions as if everyone should pander to them, because of their skin. IF they can't cope with reality and equality, its their own fault. The long history of savagery upon and against women and POC... is no more and not women nor minorities will tolerate it. The Liberal Minded white man, WILL NO LONGER accept being Intimidated by these types of think they should have privilege above others, and women should submit to them and being their house cleaner, main and sex object.

These members of dominant groups are more prone to reactionary politics because they are likely to feel their status and privilege being threatened.

They should have learned how to live in the world with others and respect others with a sense of human equality, but they were incapable of being of such humane civility.

One of the more disturbing and pitiful reactionary group to emerge in the digital age has been the “incels,” or involuntary celibates, who were thrust into the national spotlight last month after the terrorist attack in Toronto, committed by a self-described member of the “Incel rebellion.” The incel community, which congregates on websites like Reddit and 4Chan, is deeply sexist and misogynistic, and its members blame women for their inability to find sexual partners. Incels feel an “aggrieved entitlement,” and believe that women owe them sex.

Incels are just one tiny facet of the much larger reactionary trend in America and around the world. Young men are becoming radicalized by reactionary ideologies at an alarming rate, and the success of Trump and right-wing populists in Europe suggests that we are living in an age of reaction. As the most extreme reactionaries begin to use violence and other dangerous tactics to advance their political agenda, it is important to understand what has driven this reactionary trend.

Obviously those who feel this kind of malaise are liable to embrace reactionary politics if they become convinced that they would have been better off in the past, while those who do not suffer from golden-age syndrome are more likely to embrace the left. One way to challenge the reactionary mentality is to debunk the romantic depiction of the past and offer a more accurate and cogent critique of the modern world


Yes, I've written some more realistic critique of the modern world, and some in this site love to try to attack and bury the post of try and get it removed, because they don't want to see or face the truth, or lean more.

All this group of mad men and fools is showing is: these bigoted and biased racist and misogynists can't respect other people with a sense of equality.

“The anger of the middle-class white Americans is real,” he continues, but its aim “is misdirected not towards those who they think are the cause of their misery but against those who are just below them on the economic ladder.”

God knows how to flip the script in time .... so, all the centuries of their haughtiness, delusion pride and gluttony and bigotry, is now showing how their vile was never going to last forever, and now, they can't deal with the fact that people are no longer submitting to the malice they took such delight trying to impose upon other.

Its good women are no longer accepting them expecting her to owe them sex, because he's white and male. and general society is no longer giving him a free ride and first access to everything, because he's a white male.

Get in the Equality Line, just like everyone else is doing, and shut up.... That's the real answer. and learn to respect others.

the young white males just as well Get Over the delusion that women are desperate for him; and accept the fact that women can find a man in the multicultural world, and they are doing so, because they know... they no longer have to accept being degraded, and put upon, used and treated like a sex toy, and discarded the minute she shows signs of natural aging, when women now are more certain in knowing they can find men of many different ethnic and cultural backgrounds from many difference races, who will treat them as a human being and respect their individualism and equality as a person and not see them as some object and men who won't assume her as being his possession.

The job market is no longer like the pre 1960's, the world knows that jobs can be done by more people than just white men, so now... women and minorities are able to get jobs and perform as well, and many may even perform with a more focused level of involvement, because they don't feel entitled to jobs as once white men felt such entitlement; other ethnic men and women feel a sense of appreciation and responsibility to do the job they sign up to do, and they don't concern themselves with feeling entitled to the job. They want to earn their way by being a equal person who can independently contribute. Now, other cultural and ethnic people are demanding to be paid the fair and equitable wage for doing those jobs.



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