Pffft.
The Right will tell you that talking about slavery is racist because it puts all White people in a bad light.
‘Believe All Women’ Is a Right-Wing Trap
Submitted 5 days ago by Valuy@lemmy.zip to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
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DagwoodIII@piefed.social 5 days ago
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Good article. Doubt it’s nuance will ever be understood by those that wield ‘believe all women’ as a weapon, though… Because as with the article, nuance takes a long time to explain, and we live in the era of the short attention span.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 days ago
If you were as aware of the “nuances” as you claim you’d be noticing the difference between the actual phrase, “believe women” and “believe all women” and asking yourself why the author both isn’t aware of it themselves and has decided to resurrect this talking point during midterms.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Uhh what are you talking about… The (long) article is about how “believe all women” is a right-wing invention, predominantly used by detractors of feminism, and that “believe women” is the genuine leftist/feminist phrase, and discusses the difference between the two. My comment was that it’s a good article but that it may not be heard widelt due to the complexity and nuance of such a discussion and people’s short attention spans.
And then here you go… clearly not reading the article, and complaining about it and my opinion on it.
Way to prove my point I guess.
Naz@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
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The existential sigh that I utter each time I read something like this.
There’s a cadre of highly-educated, well-paid consultants, sitting there in a board room somewhere with a cool shit-eating nothingburger of an organization name like McKinsey emblazoned on the wall, with a dossier/mission objective of: