Marriage promotes 'White supremacy,' according to White university professor

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• PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In the article, Letiecq said she drew upon “critical feminist and intersectional frameworks to delineate an overarching orientation to structural oppression and unequal power relations that advantages White heteropatriarchal nuclear families (WHNFs) and marginalizes others as a function of family structure and relationship status.”

  Just ignore the content. All these words are why many normal folks thing academic liberals are airheads. I know what she’s saying because I got used to this style of super dense academic writing. But how are regular folk supposed to make heads or tails of this?

  To be fair, though, I’m not sure why media generally insists on presenting academic viewpoints like this. It’s the social science version of talking about the mathematics of fusion reactors:

  Particles are scattered by the MHD waves which are raised by instability of background plasmas. Probability that a particle entering to the downstream will eventually return to the upstream energy gain factor when a particle crosses and re-crosses the shock front.

  Presenting unintelligible nonsense (from the layman’s perspective) helps nobody. But then, Fox News does what media also generally does and dumbs the critique of marriage down into an absurdity to attack an easy strawman.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But how are regular folk supposed to make heads or tails of this?

    They are quoting her. That is why.

    My issue with articles like this is that they are not tied to a policy, party, or event. It is just the rant of an academic.

    Do I agree with her rant? No. Would most academics? No.

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  • BottomTierJannie@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair, though, I’m not sure why media generally insists on presenting academic viewpoints like this

    Because they are fundamentally social topics that impact your average Joe. To just let a bunch of quacks leverage institutions to push their crap is how we let things go worse.

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• ButWaitTheresMore@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mickey7 would have loved this. Anybody see that he snapped?

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mickey7 was banned from the Lemm.ee instance. You can see his replies on the lemmy.world instance.

    Federation is a shit show.

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    • ButWaitTheresMore@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I saw he attacked an autism community. I’m not sure what federation has to do with that.

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• ConMod@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Didn’t I already ask you to tone down the race stuff? I appreciate the content, but Id rather avoid this kind of stuff. TBH, I dont know if this is starting to cross the line into racism or if its just being bothered by racism or what.

  Man, I hate judgement calls.

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  • Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol you don’t like the blatantly racist bullshit your blatantly racist subscribers post?

    Maybe you should stop working with the racist party.

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We don’t work with the democrats. It’s obvious the professor is not a republican.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The issue I see is it’s about the culture war but not tied to an event or policy. It’s the ranting of one professor.

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    • BottomTierJannie@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So it should just be ignored that leftists are using universities to push their garbage?

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• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I read through her article, and some of her points are valid; it leaves a general so what?

  One of her complaints is that you can’t leave your SS with a partner. That is correct. That isn’t an issue with WHNF, as she uses the phrase. SS would quickly become bankrupt if you could give it to anyone. To me, this is very much a lack of economic understanding on her part.

  She also mentions immigrants, which is a tad racist in her context. White people can be immigrants.

  Most of her gripe seems to be that WHNF is the dominant culture in America, which is a silly argument since WHNF formed us. It would like going to an African nation and complaining that black people dominate their culture.

  But White supremacy is more than an ideology. It is also a multidimensional and interconnected system of structures, laws, policies, rules, regulations, and processes by which people racialized as White maintain and control power, wealth, and resources for their own and their family’s structural advantage in an unequal society.

  I’m not too fond of word salad like this. You see it in the social sciences when focused on BS. It is the babble to sound like you know what you are talking about because you can’t actually show it well. The basic premise is that everything is weaved together to prevent everyone who isn’t white, heterosexual, and married from being successful. In the past, that was true, but less so nowadays.

  She also brings up Floyd twice for some reason. Floyd’s death has nothing to do with white supremacy or even that he was black.

  Studies have repeatedly shown that a two-parent household produces better results than a single-parent household. She complains that TANF spends money on that premise. The easiest solution is stopping government welfare, which would correct most of her complaints.

  It is also odd she never talks about the breakdown in the family structure being caused by the push for more welfare.The war on poverty destroyed the black nuclear family, and as such, we should end or heavily restrict all welfare programs. Let each family build their families as they want but without the government paying their way.

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• Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe we should show up to school board meetings and protest this because we don’t want this liberal nonsense being taught to kindergarteners in our schools.

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Easy there, Hitler

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