Disagree. People would not have turned to the far right in the 2010s if we had done feminism better. Small changes in strategy would have gone a long way – like being more welcoming to straight white men in the 4th wave feminist movement. In contrast, people turning to feminism at that same time was inevitable, since the status quo was (and is) racist, anti-feminist, and anti-lgbt.
This post is just an attempt to not own up to how the left could have been smarter and done better.
Of course things always could have been done better, but I still need to see any evidence for this:
Small changes in strategy would have gone a long way – like being more welcoming to straight white men in the 4th wave feminist movement.
Considering those are just “small changes”, there should be examples of groups, contexts, communities, parties, regions or social circles that actually done that and succeeded though it in a quantifiable way. I constantly see talk about this concept of appealing to the white straight male, but never see any actual effective examples. (Maybe this would be a fitting question for !mensliberation@lemmy.ca …)
I say it’s a “small change” because I think it’s a small but vocal group of people who are unwelcoming to people of privilege. (Of course, that’s a moronic strategy – since privilege is power, you want privileged people on your side.) I think it would require the right meme (in the dawkins sense) to get people to call out those who are unwelcoming – but instead I think the unwelcoming ones had (and still have) the memetic advantage. Privilege = bad is a powerful idea, so you don’t see groups of any appreciable size which have this as the winning philosophy. But if the idea were usurped by a more powerful idea – that could be a small change, just requires someone to think of exactly the right meme.
Disagree. People would not have turned to the far right in the 2010s if we had done feminism better. Small changes in strategy would have gone a long way – like being more welcoming to straight white men in the 4th wave feminist movement. In contrast, people turning to feminism at that same time was inevitable, since the status quo was (and is) racist, anti-feminist, and anti-lgbt.
This post is just an attempt to not own up to how the left could have been smarter and done better.
Of course things always could have been done better, but I still need to see any evidence for this:
Considering those are just “small changes”, there should be examples of groups, contexts, communities, parties, regions or social circles that actually done that and succeeded though it in a quantifiable way. I constantly see talk about this concept of appealing to the white straight male, but never see any actual effective examples. (Maybe this would be a fitting question for !mensliberation@lemmy.ca …)
I say it’s a “small change” because I think it’s a small but vocal group of people who are unwelcoming to people of privilege. (Of course, that’s a moronic strategy – since privilege is power, you want privileged people on your side.) I think it would require the right meme (in the dawkins sense) to get people to call out those who are unwelcoming – but instead I think the unwelcoming ones had (and still have) the memetic advantage. Privilege = bad is a powerful idea, so you don’t see groups of any appreciable size which have this as the winning philosophy. But if the idea were usurped by a more powerful idea – that could be a small change, just requires someone to think of exactly the right meme.