• callyral [he/they]@pawb.social
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    11 days ago

    You don’t need to be cisgender, heterosexual, male or white to call people out on their bigoted beliefs.

    Edit: if you are in those categories you’re more likely to be taken more seriously by other cishet white men. I think I understand the point of the original post now.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      No, but bigoted, cisgendered, heterosexual white men are probably more likely to listen to other cisgendered heterosexual white men due to their bigotry.

      Someone disagreeing within Chad Junior’s very narrow social circle will mean more to him than someone outside of the circle, especially if that person is also unlike Chad Junior in several ways. Unfortunate as it is.

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        12 days ago

        In my experience that is almost never the case. They’ll just call you a liberal soyboy or something and never think on it further.

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      12 days ago

      Definitely. It’s just an amplifier. Imagine a protestor saying “too many cops are violent and need to cool it”, as opposed to a cop saying “too many cops are violent and need to cool it”

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        Exactly. Also some of us have learned to fear pushing back against cishet men who are being aggressive. As a trans lesbian I’m not going to improve the situation with confrontation, I’ll just get shouted at, called a snowflake, or otherwise dismissed. But when say, my girlfriend’s husband, a very large extremely masculine cishet guy challenges it, it may not always go well, but it’s perceived as peer disapproval as opposed to “triggering the enemy”.