WHITE MAN BAN Straight white able bodied men banned from attending top equality confe

Racism against white people is not a thing. You can be prejudiced to white people, you can't be racist. Racism is based on systematic oppression and power structures that suggest that there is a race that is superior to others. White people have the power in society and do not experience oppression on the basis of their race, therefore it's not racism.

I do think it doesn't make sense to not allow straight, white, able-bodied men at all though; maybe they should have just had a maximum number or something.

But it's funny how if this was reversed and it was another all-white-guys conference and a minority group complained about it, they'd say people were overreacting and it wasn't a big deal.

I do not understand how this isn't seen as badly as stuff like this:


It's exactly the same thing, just under different reasoning.

Is there a reason you are using an ape gif? Are you trying to imply something?

Is there a reason you are using an ape gif? Are you trying to imply something?

The stupidity of this statement is truly something behold.

You even give the definition and then you try so hard to say the definition is wrong.



Read the definition again.

Nothing you say will change the fact that racism = prejudice + power

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Racism against white people is not a thing. You can be prejudiced to white people, you can't be racist. Racism is based on systematic oppression and power structures that suggest that there is a race that is superior to others. White people have the power in society and do not experience oppression on the basis of their race, therefore it's not racism.

I do think it doesn't make sense to not allow straight, white, able-bodied men at all though; maybe they should have just had a maximum number or something.

But it's funny how if this was reversed and it was another all-white-guys conference and a minority group complained about it, they'd say people were overreacting and it wasn't a big deal.

Nothing you say will change the fact that racism = prejudice + power

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It's always fun to get outraged over stupid ****, but I don't see why this is a problem. They want to gather people of minority groups because they'll have similar experiences, and the content is more relevant to them.

I went to an autism group once. You had to be autistic to go. Are we going to kick off about that too?

They're not banned from the conference. If I recall correctly, they're banned from breakaways discussion groups, rather than the main conference. So there's a conference that everyone attends, then they have breakaway groups where people with protected characteristics (ie LGBT, ethnic minorities and disabled) discuss issues affecting them. So yes, an able bodied straight white man can't attend the discussion group for disabled people, but neither can an able bodied lesbian black woman. And a disabled lesbian white woman can't attend the discussion group for ethnic minorities and so on and so forth.

The ban was introduced because apparently, people without the protected characteristics were the dominating discussion groups. It makes sense to me.

I think it's important to discourage white males from attending/supporting equality anyway, you'd have to be plain stupid. What self respecting white male goes around saying the white male oppresses people, and that they're to blame, when he is one lmao.

Sincerely, **** you lady. What was "wildly misrepresented"? Why shouldn't we care that racism is being openly allowed?

I'm gonna copy and paste from my previous post and from Shumaya's that are on the last page that you obviously didn't read.

Mine: "That whole thing has been misrepresented... They ARE invited to the conference, but there are separate workshops for minority groups. Like for instance, why would a black woman want to attend a workshop that was directly aimed at a gay disabled guy?? Why would a white straight able-bodied man want to hear a lecture that was about the difficulties of being a black disabled lesbian? They're not banned from the entire conference... people need to use their freaking heads when it comes to this stuff. Jesus."

Shumaya: "They're not banned from the conference. If I recall correctly, they're banned from breakaways discussion groups, rather than the main conference. So there's a conference that everyone attends, then they have breakaway groups where people with protected characteristics (ie LGBT, ethnic minorities and disabled) discuss issues affecting them. So yes, an able bodied straight white man can't attend the discussion group for disabled people, but neither can an able bodied lesbian black woman. And a disabled lesbian white woman can't attend the discussion group for ethnic minorities and so on and so forth.

The ban was introduced because apparently, people without the protected characteristics were the dominating discussion groups. It makes sense to me."

How can it be racism btw?! I seriously don't get it. Are white men victims? Do you want to invade a group of black lesbians and demand your voice to be heard when it's nothing to do with you? For Gods sake.

It's one thing to want to gather a certain group of people to have their experiences, it's entirely another to ban a certain category of people and disallow their experiences. And why should they just want minority views, that seems to be suggesting only minorities can experience inequality which is factually incorrect.

Living in one of the 'most tolerant' countries doesn't mean oppression doesn't still exist in a systematic sense. Women do not have equal pay, the majority of the higher ups in this country are white men, although it's under the radar and hard to prove, there's still high chances of people of colour losing out on jobs due to their race. Things are improving, I know that, but it's not fully gone at all.

Maybe people aren't actively saying 'these groups of people are bad', but saying that there is no oppression and that everyone is treated equally in terms of 'the system' would be ignorant.

It's always fun to get outraged over stupid ****, but I don't see why this is a problem. They want to gather people of minority groups because they'll have similar experiences, and the content is more relevant to them.

I went to an autism group once. You had to be autistic to go. Are we going to kick off about that too?

Of course anyone can experience inequality, but minorities will have a unique perspective on it.

They did want to gather a certain group - people belonging to some sort of minority. I think people are far too sensitive too this in general. We shouldn't kick off over people only wanting to gather minorities, but we also shouldn't kick off over people only wanting to gather straight white males. It shouldn't be a problem. If you don't want me to attend your *****y conference, I won't attend it.

Obviously it's a problem at some point, like if you're discriminating against job candidates, but getting upset over being denied access to a conference is just petty.