{"id":955,"date":"2019-02-20T14:13:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T14:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/?page_id=955"},"modified":"2020-11-09T10:33:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T10:33:16","slug":"condemning-good-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/condemning-good-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Condemning Good People"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The latest Gillette Ad is despicable.<\/p>\n

Just because some people have decided that something that was never before considered much of an issue is now a matter of supreme moral importance, doesn\u2019t mean that you should disparage the previous generation.<\/p>\n

You know, the generation that didn\u2019t spent it\u2019s day sitting around looking for something it could point it\u2019s finger at and use to accuse (white) people of being bigoted so it could then pretend to be morally virtuous as it fought some irrelevant ideological war against a non-existent foe, but the generation that actually got off its butt and did something productive, working hard to provide for their families and improve their lives.<\/p>\n

We have inherited a country of freedom and equality. We have inherited a country of technological and medical advancement that allows us to live longer, healthier and far more comfortably than any people in human history and instead of turning to the previous generation and thanking them for what they have bequeathed us, we condemn them for being racists and sexists, bullies and harassers.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying the previous generation were without fault. I\u2019m not saying that today everything is perfect and that there is nothing that needs improving. I\u2019m saying we should have a little perspective. Focusing on the kind of bullying and harassing that either mostly doesn\u2019t occur anymore except for in the mind of a Leftist or is not actually bullying or harassing except for again, in the mind of a Leftist, in such a heavy handed manner is a disgraceful attempt to portray good people who may have minor flaws as far worse than they are, just so they can feel virtuous for contributing to humanities fight against inequality. A fight that has by and large already been won.<\/p>\n

At least in the West.<\/p>\n

Because these people don\u2019t spend any time focusing on the far greater and more extreme racism and sexism that is clear in certain other cultures.<\/p>\n

After all, it\u2019s much easier to condemn good people who won\u2019t respond other than some mild complaint, than actual racists and sexists who may take up the point with you in a manner you may find somewhat unpleasant.<\/p>\n

Three specific points about the Ad.<\/p>\n

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  1. A black man tells a white man how an open expression of attraction is not cool and physically prevents him from going after a woman that has just passed him in the street. What\u2019s the precise message here? When a white man sees a women he finds attractive he immediately chases her down the street with the intent to sexually harass her. Maybe he was just going to ask her out. Maybe she would have said yes. Maybe they would have lived happily ever after. I suppose we simply can\u2019t take the risk \u2013 that they\u2019ll be happy. After all Leftists want you to be as miserable as they are and misery loves company.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. Two scenarios are presented: one with two small boys fighting and another where one boy is being chased by a group of boys who they start to beat when they catch him. In both cases men detachedly observe as if this is acceptable behaviour, until the end of the Ad when they finally step in and do the right thing. On what planet are the writers of this Ad living on? Parents, even fathers don\u2019t stand by and watch while their small child beats the child of a friend of theirs. No! Who the hell are you associating with? Get some better friends. Men don\u2019t just stand around and watch as a group of boys attack another. I\u2019m just not convinced that this is happening on the scale your suggesting. Cue the anecdotal evidence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. What\u2019s with fascination with men making barbeques. You\u2019ve really put us in a pickle now. If women cook it\u2019s sexist, if men cook it\u2019s a symbol of toxic masculinity. Heads I win, tails you lose. It\u2019s almost as if you\u2019re saying whatever men do they\u2019re evil. Remove the words \u201cit\u2019s almost as if\u201d from the previous sentence if you didn\u2019t read the sarcasm into it in the first place.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. Good news. Gillette have graciously decided that some men are indeed acting the right way, \u201cbut some is not enough\u201d which sounds like they\u2019re suggesting that most men are acting the wrong way. Also, if they felt that most men were acting the right way you wouldn\u2019t need a whole business destroying add to rebuke a minority of men. So it seems they mean the majority of men are bullies and harassers. Which is interesting because for every legitimate criticism of a culture, religion or single person, we usually hear the \u201chow dare you paint everyone with the same brush\u201d excuse. Don\u2019t you people usually justify the worst behaviour by claiming it\u2019s only a tiny minority of that group? But when it comes to men, apparently it\u2019s okay to condemn most of them as bullies and harassers! At least now we know why you think we<\/em> are painting everyone with the same brush.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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