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[La Lioness Priyanka]

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[bonemachine]

1. Playing the devils advocate has always been the province of the privileged

If you are actually oppressed, you don't generally have the resources to waste on argument for arguments sake.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. It's good to like and want things

Doesn't mean what you like or want you get.

[6chars]

3. sense of entitlement

and acting out to punish people who are challenging that sense of entitlement, all the while also displaying sense of entitlement of being able to troll.

[Nye Bevan]

4. How did that study determine that most of the trolls are white men?

Very ingenious, given the anonymity of the internet.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. do you really think that they are evenly spread given who the targets are?

[Nye Bevan]

9. Anyone who (like me) has worked with women who have a female boss

know that women don't always only say extremely nice things about other women. To say the least.

Just because someone is posting a mean comment online about a woman doesn't necessarily mean that the poster is a white man.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. specifically commenting about rape? i dont think so. i know you LOVE to deny

that race plays a roll in anything, but typically black people don't attack other black writers.

[Nye Bevan]

16. What about a black person like Ben Carson? (nt)

[bonemachine]

7. Good catch

There doesn't appear to be any such study, and the title of this thread (not that I believe it's incorrect) doesn't actually have any support for in the posted content.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. lol. so you think a bunch of women and minorities are trolling minorities and other women

and demanding apologies on behalf of white men from me?

[Nye Bevan]

12. Search for "girl fight" on Youtube (nt)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. sometimes your denial about the CLEAR evidence of misogyny and racism

says way more about you, than you think

[thomservo]

5. Insecurity.

They also tend to be right wingers.

[Warpy]

10. The quiz was interesting

and I'm happy to report that the Guardian agrees with me about which trolls to block.

White males are the worst for trolling because until very recently, they were automatically at the top of the economic food chain. Now they have to compete with uppity women and blacks who don't know their place and they hate it.

You never notice privilege until you start to lose it. Then it freaks you out.

Oh, most of the white males here at DU know what's going on. It's the unenlightened anger junkies with poor impulse control who are the problem. The good news is that they're the minority. The bad news is that they don't have anything better to do but harass and threaten women and POC.

[enough]

13. It's a form of power that requires no prowess, no strength, no courage, no wit.

If you live in a world where you feel your power is draining away, it's a very easy risk-free way to convince yourself you're fighting back.

[Hortensis]

14. One factor: Trolls are mostly men, and most men are white.

At least in our nation.

Of course, also note that a lot of Americans may poll Hispanic or "white" because of European or native heritage, depending on the issue, thus raising or lowering the "white" percentage. Our Danish DIL's Danish-Spanish mother, whose family moved from Spain to South America nearly century ago, identifies as European.

[Aristus]

17. First of all, I don't like that asshole's insistence that I'm owed an apology just because I'm a

white man.


He should speak for himself, and let us non-neurotic, non-entitled white men go about our lives.

You don't owe me anything, Priy.

Trolls are white men who think that if someone who is not white and a man is succeeding at something, that means he, conversely, must be failing at something, and that that failure is someone else's fault, not his.