He voted for Donald Trump because he wanted a better America for everyone.
But now that he’s read 800 pages on queer feminist theory, his whole world ha turned upside and he realizes just how foolish he’s been.
Honestly, the less said about this one, the better. But this is one of The Onion‘s instant classics.
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KaiserVonScheiss
Absolutely stupid. Yes, blame the “patriarchy” and capitalism. All this nonsense is rooted in social constructionism and anti-positivism, the rejection of the scientific method.
I’m sorry, but I support the scientific method. We need positivism in the social sciences, not anti-positivist nonsense.
It’s so unfortunate that these anti-positivist “academics” get to indoctrinate young people into believing all this third-wave feminist nonsense about women and minorities being oppressed in the modern world.
It’s nonsense. That’s why they have to rewrite the dictionary and redefine words like racism to make it seem like only white people can be racist, the power plus privilege nonsense.
Again, all this identity politics and oppression Olympics are why Trump won. The Democrats stopped being the party of the working class and embraced identity politics. That’s why they lost Michigan and Pennsylvania.
mhoffman953
The left will say we shouldn’t judge people by the color of their skin or their gender but in that’s in fact what they themselves do everyday.
They will label all straight white men as bad but then act as if all Muslims, illegals, transgenders, or whatever group is absolved from any wrong doing just because of their group identity.
They’ll blame the “patriarchy” or “white privilege” and not take on the idea of individualism. If a guilty man is acquitted because he’s the “right race” that is anti-justice, if an innocent man is convicted because he’s the “wrong race” that is anti-justice too. Social justice ignores all of that and suggests that your group identity is the deciding factor.
These same people will argue that wages, crime rates, credit scores, and income are somehow tied to a rigged system against these special groups and not that the individuals in that group maybe are accountable for these outcomes.
Pushing a hard left agenda of identity politics will eventually lead to a counter push of an extremely radical hard right agenda in the future, which is something no one wants to happen.
KaiserVonScheiss
Exactly. The alt right is a response to the anti-white identity politics of the left. It’s just a pro-white version of identity politics. It shows that there is both a regressive left and a regressive right.
ErikO
The onion is satire but it’s funny how the left takes things like this satirical video/article seriously, and how they believe that women really are extremely oppressed in the Western world.
EquesNiger
I found it funny. Spot on in many respects. It cleverly shows the divide.
Seriously, how can you expect THAT GUY to get the points and perspectives that he so eloquently espouses in the vid? I think the point is we’re talking to each other, but not communicating.
But I’m a rare one these days that appreciates irony, and don’t take a sanctimonious attitude.
DCguy
I love that two of Mo Bro’s screenames have a conversation with each other in the first few comments.
And how adorable that one of them says that “We need Positivism” in the social sciences.”
Ahhhh, I get it, by “Positivism” you mean that nobody should bring up the bigotry or racism of the right wing because that is negative. Nobody should bring up women’s rights because insinuating that they aren’t fully equal is negative.
But of course right in the same post you then attack the other side. How cute, how sad, how hypocritical.
You can tell the right wing is losing because you can’t talk about Trump or his actions or Congresses laws, so you just sit here navel gazing crying about “The Left”.
Heywood Jablowme
Uh… it’s pretty obvious (to smart people, anyway) that the Onion isn’t taking the “queer feminism” stuff seriously either.
dwes09
Willing to bet you don’t have the slightest idea what the scientific method is and that you generally find empiricism offensive. All your comments indicate you are driven by assumption, fear and myth as opposed to empiricism. The same is true of mhoffman, though of course those are simply new screen names fort he same old fools.
Neither of you would know a valid theory or an empirical study if it came up and poked you in the eye! You are mired in regressive myth.
Patmat
Well, you know, the problem is that for example white privilege is an unfortunate reality, but it’s one that, as a culture, we can work to amend so long as we begin to acknowledge its existence. So next time someone tells you to “check your privilege,” don’t take it as an insult. Listen, see your ignorance, and become conscious of your own privilege. Because the reality is, it’s hard to self-examine and we are all in need of someone to tell us when to check our privilege when we, ourselves, are blind to it.
EquesNiger
LOL. Which culture? Gay, white…both? American?
I’ll share a stunning fact – society functions by inclusive boxes, which, by default, means exclusion is the rule. Moving away from that is laudable – but it takes an unnatural effort because it goes against several millennia of evolutionary, survival based instinct.
I’ll also share an irony. The two countries most engrossed in self-flagellation and soul searching in regards to gender and race bias are the US and UK. Perhaps because of that, they’re also the most progressive on both. Of the EU Parliament, only 8 are “non-whites”, and 5 of them are UK reps. “Progressive” Germany only elected its first two “non-whites” to Parliament in 2013, despite a ethnic make up of over 20% of the population. France’s track record is ridiculous – though the rise of LePen makes this more obvious in recent days. Anyway, point being that the countries which most applaud civil liberties on the World stage tend to be weakest, whereas the two most vilified tend to show the best results.
man5996853
It does, to an extent, but not all white people have “white privilege”, which is something liberals often forget. There is very little difference in the way poor white people and poor black people are viewed and there are any number of factors that could disadvantage one over the other in any given situation. People who reap the rewards of white privilege likely have other qualities and advantages working in their favor as well. An unattractive, fat woman with little education or enough money to buy decent clothing is likely to fare poorly at an interview no matter her skin color.
KaiserVonScheiss
White privilege is a racist term. It’s making a judgment of all white people just because they are white. That is racism per the actual definition.
Stilinski26
As an Asian I will say white privilege does not exist! stop using buzzwords to make people feel guilty about themselves.
DCguy
@Stilinski26
LOL!!!! Oh man you Trump trolls get worse and worse every time.
Stilinski26
@DCguy A non white person having different opinion than yours must be a hard pill to swallow
mhoffman953
@Patmat
White privilege does not exist and you can’t espouse that all whites are privileged.
If whites are so privileged, why do whites commit suicide rates at twice the rate which blacks do? Out of the total number of suicides in America, white men commit 7 out of every 10 – even though only 3 out of 10 Americans are white males. If whites are so privileged, why are the majority of welfare recipients in America actually white?
There are other factors which make an individual more fortunate than others which have nothing to do with race but more socioeconomic factors. For instance, if someone grows up with 2 parents or wealth, then that person is more fortunate than someone in a single-parent home or a poor family. It has nothing to do with race.
Does the left despise Asian Americans? Asian Americans do better than whites in school and on IQ tests and are about to surpass whites as the wealthiest group of Americans according to the Federal Reserve. Do Asians have “Asian privilege”? Of course not. Just look at Jewish Americans, they compose a small percentage of Americans but comprise one of the wealthier groups in America. Are they privileged?
Let’s take two people for example, a poor white kid and an above-average income black kid. Of the two, who has a better chance of being accepted into a prestigious college? The black kid does because those colleges have programs in place to give preferential treatment based on minority status. Poor white kids will never be able to quality for minority scholarships whereas upper middle class black students can qualify.
Additionally, why is there always a push to diversify countries and industries that are “too white”? Why is there never a push to diversify industry where white people are underrepresented and to ensure these places have equal representations of everybody? The NBA and NFL are predominantly black and very high paid yet there is never a push for more whites in this industry.
The left loves to tout white privilege because it emboldens and angers minorities to stay on the left when they vote.
DCguy
@Stilinski26 So Mo Bro….ooops, I mean Stillinski26, you are perfectly welcome to back up your point. But Trump Trolls M.O. is to make a meaningless comment to try to deflect from the subject. So put up or shut up.
Stilinski26
Feminist theory? lmao
DCguy
@mhoffman953
And another piece of proof that white privilege exists is how desperate and freaked out the Trump Trolls are to try to argue against it. If it didn’t impact your life you wouldn’t care so much about it.
But please, keep on posting your posts Mo Bro….Oh wait…dammit, you’re under the mhoffman screename here. Sorry about that.
mhoffman953
@DCguy Do you even think stuff out before you write it? Everything you wrote makes no sense.
You’re arguing that if someone points out that something doesn’t exist then it must exist. IF that’s true the opposite must be true, that if someone points out something does exist then it must not exist.
LOL the left loves people like you because they aren’t capable of critical thinking and independent thought
Captain Obvious
Divide and conquer. Bigots are historical idiots. They don’t even know why.
OzJosh
The thing here is that you have to reach for something like feminist theory to make a joke about how stupid Trump voters were/are. One could just point out that they could have gleaned a few pertinent facts about Trump – readily available online or in any number of books and articles – to expose him as a total phoney, but that’s not funny, it’s just sad.
sylvialucas444
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