• jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
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    Except movements are often named after the oppressed group. Black Lives Matter, for example, doesn’t really want cops to only stop killing Black people. Black people are just disproportionately impacted.

    Feminism is about raising up women’s status in society. That benefits men in the process though.

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      Except movements are often named after the oppressed group

      That’s nice, but I don’t care. Doing things in a stupid way because “that’s how we’ve always done it” is literally conservativism, which I’m not really for.

      This thread originates from a comment surprised that people would look at a gendered term and assume actions done in that name are for said gender, this should be an obvious and predictable outcome, one that’s been seen countless times, and has a simple and easy fix

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        No your position is dumb, it is petty and so silly and a perfect example of how dumb you’re being. No one decided this. It just developed this way. Your critique is the name?

        Feminism is an egalitarian movement that likely you’d not even know what the word meant had this movement not continued for its history. Feminism is the grandmother of almost any egalitarian movement today.

        Fool. You’re a petty fool

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      From an outsider, when I heard Black Lives Matter I thought the core goal was to value black lives more.

      It’s less about what they “want” and more about what got them to protest… which is police behaviour towards black individuals, not everyone.