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CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 03:43 PM Jan 2013

are you sure that's the case?

i agree with you that the feminist movement is far more expansive that it's title implies.

but when you look at MLK and other civil rights leaders in the black community --they weren't just talking about black people.

there is a larger kind of thinking that all these movements point to. it's why i said in my thread about white male privilege, which was aimed at white males, btw...

i said that the feminists, the civil rights advocates in all our lives are not simply for advances among one group, although advances for one underprivileged group is absolutely a fair aim, but they tend to be in favor of everybody moving ahead and society simply being a fairer place, with MORE sharing in its rewards, not less.

in a way, that's how you distinguish advocates for "men's rights" and "white's rights" is that, in general, those privileged activist groups are threatened that they might have to increasingly share things with the larger community.

whereas movements for overcoming discrimination are dominated by more egalitarian leaders who tend to want a fairer society not just for the members of their group, but for all.

and you can guess which groups that i think have the moral authority on this.

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