Two things can exist at once—life’s not that simple.

White guys make up a large chunk of the population. There are white guys that have some of the same problems that are harming minorities as well. Poverty, addiction, mental and physical health, inflation, an unfavorable jobs market, and so on.

They see a democratic party that is at best useless at addressing these problems, when they admit that they exist at all. At worst, they see a party that is dismissive and hostile to these concerns, and to them personally. In contrast, they see a republican party that is full of welcoming con artists who will happily tell them that all their problems spring from minorities.

Neither side is offering actual solutions, but republicans are acknowledging that the problems exist, even if they're offering false solutions.

So white guys keep falling for con artists. No one else is offering them anything.

Why I left the left? I used to be a radical leftist, who believed in radical ideas like and , but then I went through and also got falsely accused of rape after having sex with a drunken woman, so I became a moderate christian conservative who believes in , , and <literal nazi thing, but "extermination" is replaced with "removal from society">.

Sometimes it feels like the term male privilege is just a way to tell men to suck it up, don't cry, keep your feelings bottle up on the inside. Meanwhile, hypocritically being against toxic masculinity.

We don't need ragebait in this world.

As a white guy, I have the kind of privilege that allows me enough space to realize that I'm sad. Hell, I could probably just walk up to a cop and tell them I'm sad, and they'd offer me some horrible, but well-meaning advice.

But when I mention my Judaism, something interesting might happen. Especially if I told them that my Zionist family lives in Israel. But the real excitement will start when I say "free Palestine."

But the saddest part of all is that I could say nothing, and just be white, and no one will give a fuck. It's mostly sad because I'm incapable of saying nothing.

Fuck you bud, 10/10 bait

That applies to white women as well

Holy strawman

Being sad that black people are in movies isn't oppression

I hate the word "privilege" used in this context. Words have connotations, and "privilege" conjures up images of playing polo at the country club with the upper crust of one's community, then going back to the office to work as executive vice president of the company your father founded. Yet, the people concerned about social justice seem unreasonably attached to their particular jargon, even if it gets in the way of communication. Over the past 15 years or so, I've seen a handful of people get it when it's explained to them as, "imagine you grew up hardscrabble dirt poor, but also had to deal with racism." But mostly, the online discussions devolve into a fight over the definition of the word privilege. C'mon, let's just ditch the word, ferchrissakes! Keep the concept, call it something more relatable!

Same with "toxic masculinity." Yes, I get it, the "toxic" adjective is a modifier to talk about a particular type of masculinity, but the people who hear it as "masculinity is toxic" have a point, too. People use adjectives as intensifiers. I guarantee that the people talking about "evil homosexuals" aren't adding "evil" to distinguish from the good ones.