AboveGL wrote:What's also pissed me off are some of the reactions to the male equivalent (i.e. men admitting they turned a blind eye to harassment, crossed or tested a boundary without communicating it first, or didn't believe/inadvertently held a victim responsible; needless to say, I give this the same support as the original MeToo trend). To give an extreme example: "why are our oppressors patting themselves on the back because they didn't talk over their female colleague in today's business meeting?".
No you blithering fucking idiot, that's not what these men are doing. They're actively pushing back against a toxic culture they were raised in. You know, the pushback many feminists have been asking for...?
This is one of the biggest issues holding back progress, as I see it. Not just some very vocal feminists, but very vocal activists for other historically oppressed groups react with anger and often hatred towards anyone they deem as their "oppressors", even if those people are doing good. There's a loud portion (although I assume it to also be a vocal minority) of pretty much all activist groups that appear to have no other agenda but to spread anger, bitterness, and hate. The effect of this is that it becomes much easier for people in those traditionally oppressor groups to turn a blind eye if for no other reason than they don't want to invoke the wrath of someone who will target them for not being good enough, or some other ridiculous thing.
What's worse is that in today's No True Scotsman style of activism, the majority of the activists themselves, it seems to me, are being silenced by the same people. If you're a feminist who doesn't agree with the extreme feminists, or a black rights activist who doesn't agree with the most outspoken, hateful part of the movement, you're discriminated against much worse than even the traditional oppressors oppress, as far as I can see. More and more, not only are movements lead by the far end, but anyone who doesn't hold, or at least pretend to hold, those extreme views are ostracized.
The old dystopian novels told us it would be the government censoring us, but it seems the late Mr. Bradbury may have been the most prophetic. Who needs government censorship when we can censor everyone ourselves?