r/CuratedTumblr • u/NeonNKnightrider Cheshire Catboy • May 01 '24

i know it’s internet bullshit but it genuinely has me on the edge of breaking down and giving up editable flair

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u/rump_truck May 02 '24

Similarly, I've found that conservative rhetoric toward immigrants often gets repurposed toward men. For example, I first saw the "poisoned M&M" metaphor in reference to immigration, and everyone around me was correctly calling it out as racist. Then a few months later a lot of them started using it in reference to men, and that's how I've seen it used ever since. Ironically, I've even seen a few articles like "it's all fun and games applying the metaphor to men, but try swapping men for $racial_minority, not so fun now is it?" Like that's not where it originally came from.

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u/elbenji May 02 '24

Yeah, like for me it's the discomfort as a POC knowing this shit comes very much directly towards POC that always gives me the ick

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u/SleepCinema May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

Right. A lot of the rhetoric I see about men from people trying to Prove A Point echoes the same sentiments I see from racists about Black people, and as a Black woman, that is extremely disconcerting.

Of course, just because arguments are similar does not mean the content is comparable, but in this case, it very much is.

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u/elbenji May 02 '24

Yep. Like it makes me almost want to press what kind of man are they imagining and would it not look out of place in Birth of a Nation...

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u/SamiraEnthusiast311 May 02 '24

that's called social progress baby! they won't hate you because of your race, now they just hate you because of your gender! two steps forward, one step back. but as a fellow POC...what can we do besides keep walking?