Some things never change. We're a self defeating bunch of nitwits

[hunter]

63. Racism on the left is worse in many ways than racism on the right.

At least the right wing is predictable. One expects them to be racists.

Straight white "leftist" males have a way of blindsiding anyone who isn't a straight white male, and doubling down they get so damned offended whenever anyone calls them on it. They are the delicate flowers of the straight white patriarchy.

I remember seeing this as a young white male environmental activist. I met too many straight white males whose attitudes about most things were little different than "conservative" white Reagan-loving U.S.A.. They'd seek the "input" of those who were not straight white male like themselves and then ignore it entirely, or regurgitate it later in some very twisted way, as their own.

In too many ways they were conservatives wearing expensive hiking boots and shorts instead of a suit and tie; men who had issues with just one or two aspects of the conservative agenda, things like nuclear power, dams, and wilderness areas they'd frequently visit in very manly ways. But otherwise they always thought it was best to work within "the system," unwittingly (to be generous) because they didn't see anything wrong with a system where straight white males like themselves were in charge of everything.

These men's "women" (men who were so evolved beyond marriage...) made them breakfast, prepared them for political battle, entertained their fellow warriors, and took care of the kids, just like any good corporate wife of that era.