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egbertowillies

(4,473 posts) Wed Aug 30, 2017, 01:29 PM Aug 2017

Should we coddle angry white men or tell them the truth? [View all]

Much of today's talk is about angry white men who believe that they are getting the short end of the stick. But should we appease them or should we stop lying to them?

It is too easy to coddle newly aggrieved angry white men when the premise of their grievance is false and misleading. Once again a scholar wrote an article that gets much right but fails to provide the only advice that makes sense.

PLEASE READ in the intended context and comment constructively.

https://egbertowillies.com/2017/08/30/coddle-angry-white-men-tell-truth/

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Should we coddle angry white men or tell them the truth? [View all] egbertowillies Aug 2017 OP

I think when they whine about their poor pitiful plight, we tell them to STFU and Hoyt Aug 2017 #1

You advocate disarming people based on race and gender? Marengo Aug 2017 #6

I disagree with Hoyt strongly on this issue... GulfCoast66 Aug 2017 #10

Truthfully, I can probably live with people having a gun or two AT HOME for Hoyt Aug 2017 #19

I advocate disarming militias, Klansmen, white wing racists who are majority of gun fanciers in this Hoyt Aug 2017 #11

Does that include armed organizations such as the Huey Newton Gun Club, John Brown Gun Club, etc.? Marengo Aug 2017 #17

Marengo, those groups pale in size to all the white wingers who covet gunz, and you know it. Hoyt Aug 2017 #18

You didn't answer the question. Try again, yes or no only please. Marengo Aug 2017 #20

It can be frustrating when context and nuance deny the mental simplicity of only yes or no. LanternWaste Aug 2017 #24

Your lack of a reply to post #20 is rather suspicious. Why are you avoiding answering? Are you... Marengo Aug 2017 #29

+++++++++++ HAB911 Aug 2017 #21

How are they going to prove they are better than everybody else if they don't have their Aristus Aug 2017 #25

I've given this a lot of thought MosheFeingold Aug 2017 #2

Hard truth... Blue_Tires Aug 2017 #3

What you said 100% brush Aug 2017 #27

It doesn't matter what you do maxsolomon Aug 2017 #4

Wow really? cwydro Aug 2017 #5

Everything about our society's status quo has been established to coddle white males. Baitball Blogger Aug 2017 #7

Close MosheFeingold Aug 2017 #8

From a minority stand-point, based on the color of our skin, our perceptions may lend themselves Baitball Blogger Aug 2017 #15

Bingo! nt MrScorpio Aug 2017 #9

As a sterotypical supposed Trump supporter... GulfCoast66 Aug 2017 #12

Spot on. The task is to get them to see they're in the same exploited boat as the rest of us. brush Aug 2017 #28

The entirety of contemporary politics is about coddling angry white men BainsBane Aug 2017 #13

Outstanding Post, BB!!! ProfessorGAC Aug 2017 #22

Brava! KitSileya Aug 2017 #23

Wrong word, 'coddle' Maeve Aug 2017 #14

I wish I could find it now. There was a panel on a TV show about a decade ago ProudLib72 Aug 2017 #16

"THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH' Motley13 Aug 2017 #26

Well, if we'd stop coddling them by telling them lies... Orsino Aug 2017 #30