You can have power or you can have “protected group” status. You shouldn’t be able to have both.

submitted by Guts from (self.politics)

That’s what some “marginalized groups” are gunning for right now.

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[–]teelo 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Most of the leftist subs who ban users for expressing counter-arguments have historically been the ones complaining about censorship.

And now some of them (GenderCritical) are once again complaining about censorship when they've been engaged in harsh censorship on Reddit for years.

[–]Wrang1er 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Fuck gender critical

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's just dumb because GC wasn't even women only on Reddit.

[–]djhdlkguhaeil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The first posts they're putting up are "fuck off men, this is our safe space"

So yeah, fuck gender-critical. They're just mad that they weren't the ones wielding the banhammer this time.

[–]PencilPusher55 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

One of them even went as far as to say that the reason why they ban people in the sub already is because they already know that their opinion is invalid. So there is no use and even arguing.

Honest to God, this is no different than people moving out of a blue state into a red one and then voting for all of the Democratic politicians again. It’s why they destroy every place they touch. Geographically or online.

[–]Gunk 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There shouldn't be "protected groups" in the first place.

[–]Zero_1 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh you can, its how you become the opressed opressor.

[–]SpeakPeasy 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not sure that works. By providing protected status to certain groups (e.g protected characteristics in legislation) it gives them a degree of power that they didn't have before doesn't it?