Yeah, life isn't fair. The impression left by generations of blacks raping and assaulting women in a culture that defends, promotes and rewards predatory behavior means women might not automatically assume you're a paragon of virtue at first glance.
>White Americans are descended from Europeans, and the post was talking about being proud to be white
White Americans have never experienced oppression in America. Full stop. Europeans typically are not racialized and do not identify as white, instead as Italian, German, etc. This discussion is obviously about whites in the US.
>Though I don't see why oppression is a requirement for pride - does achievement not suffice?
It's not an achievement when you spent centuries conquering, colonizing, and extracting everything you can from BIPOCs. When you start out so far ahead in a race it's not an achievement when you win.
>And "white fragility" is simply a way to dismiss objections without addressing if they are factual.
I addressed them, you're not factual. White Americans recoil to the facts that they created and live in a society that upholds their supremacy.
>You question ask a minor about the consequences of a procedure and judge if they understand it by how they respond.
OK groomer. This is the same logic pedophiles use. Children are not legally nor mentally capable of making such decisions. Full stop.
>But it's clear you, personally, are not capable of doing such a thing because you would instead prefer gaslighting.
Projecting about gaslighting is one of the signs of grooming. You're right, I'm not capable of doing something as morally bankrupt like grooming children.
Obviously talking about white Americans, not Europeans. White Americans have never been systemically oppressed. Your reaction to the OP is a textbook case of white fragility [0].
>Try reading up on plural systems before you make such judgements
Unfortunately we have.
>And don't hang around /r/SystemsCringe; it's a hate sub.
Stop. Stop right there. Laughing at the deranged lunacy of this stupid subculture is NOT HATE. Stop diluting the word "hate" to mean "any slight that goes against my narrative or the narratives of those I ally with." There are real hate groups out there spreading their filth and getting people killed. By diluting the seriousness of hatred, you're inadvertently giving them power. STOP. IT.
>Otherkin is not a fad
Yes it is. It's a fad like emo and goth, with tons of overlap.
>and it's not confined to Tumblr
Unfortunately.
> been around for decades, all over the net and real-life society.
So has emo and goth at this rate. You're proving my point.
>There's considerable overlap between otherkin and furry; otherkin is basically furry for fictional species.
>Anyway, furry/otherkin and plural people read and post here to Hackernews all the time
Chronically online people are online. Shocked I tell you!
>often as experts in their professional field. One of the most consistent producers of...
And often experts in our field are like me: tired of the attention seeking shenanigans like the "system" losers that we have to deal with and manage day to day. Every day chronically online socially awkward people will find some community of invented nonsense to differentiate themselves and play the victim. Nothing like a persecution fetish mixed with fantasy.
>that it still has nothing in it that considers women equal to men, despite women's right to vote, pay taxes, own businesses, etc. being established decades ago.
Mind pointing out where exactly in the current, live form of the constitution where women are not considered equal to men?
You know what's natural? Children having identity crises and not being mentally developed enough to know the long term effects of their decisions. Nature sucks.
>If you cared about these kids you would learn about why they want puberty blockers rather than suggesting we torture them by denying them medical treatment because of some concept of "natural".
If you cared about these kids you would learn about why they want puberty blockers rather than suggesting we torture them by pumping them full of steroids to destroy their bodies and denying them their natural development because it's politically expedient.
"Treating" "trans children" is a crime against humanity. Much the same way lobotomies, FGM, etc. are.
I relent the loss of Tumblr because these tired takes on "chuds" and "literal nazis, tell ya whut" were mostly contained there and the shitty subreddits. Now they're getting posted on HN :(.