History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: Um, did you see this in GD? [View all]BainsBane
(56,318 posts)Is to claim DU as white male space only and make sure women who don't buy into photoshopped media images know they are not welcome here, and jurors who allow those posts to stand are reinforcing that claim.
There is no public space that would allow either of those threads, no Democratic Party office, no politicians office, no workplace that bothers with following the law in any way. The reason is that it creates a deliberately hostile environment. But DUers who enforce that notion of community standards do not seek to be inclusive of all Americans. Instead they deliberately and purposefully seek to exclude anyone who isn't white, old, male, or thinks women are full human beings with equal rights. This is not the philosophy or demographic of the Democratic Party, which is predominately women and people of color. This is rather a bunch of old men and their allies who are pissed off society advanced past 1962 and are doing everything they can to roll back the clock to a period before they had to compete with women and people of color in the workplace, before LGBT folks had basic rights, before married women could own property, before women and people of color could legally be denied work and housing based on their sex or race. That is why they target African American members and feminists and why they are starting to tell LGBT members to keep their mouths shut about their rights. These are supremely reactionary people who have so interpolated capitalist commodity fetishism that they think Sports Illustrated is "human sexuality," as one juror insisted.
Liberals do not exclude. Liberals are not male supremacists. Liberals are not white supremacists. That is what people do who are terrified to see their privilege evaporate and are desperate to create one little space of the internet that recreates a time when no one but they had rights.
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