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Also, I think that it's probably more accurate to say "Republican voters" and "Democrat voters."
There's never an oppressed group amongst whose constituents the temptation to degrade other constituents for the approval of the dominant group is absent. When I say "never," I mean never; nowhere in the world is that dynamic absent.
Many of the public discussions of the issues raised by Me Too have been simplistic and exclusive of men in every dimension. It was easier for much of the media and others to discuss Me Too as a gender war rather than as a movement whose goal is a healthy society in equilibrium.
There wasn't enough discussion of peer pressure by other women to acquiesce to a secondary role in society.
There wasn't enough effort to include male victims of harassment and assault.
Despite the plethora of allegations against individual men, very little has occurred to challenge the core problem. The core problem is a society that rewards unnecessary aggression in all of its forms, as long as that aggression is perpetrated against the less powerful. It's not the case that unnecessarily aggressive women are never rewarded; they are frequently rewarded for being aggressive toward other women.
I'm not blaming the prominent Me Too proponents for the faltering of the movement. It was to be expected; all of the previous civil rights movements have also faltered, particularly in the wake of the undeniable, and yet denied, transition of the world away from democracy and toward totalitarianism. Every preexisting, predatory hierarchy is conducive to that transition.
The number of articles from the European media that have said that Syrians are better off being oppressed by Mr. Assad than continuing to try to gain their freedom even through political processes, or that have called the deathly quiescence imposed by his victories "stabilization," is shameful and appalling.
I think that massacre happened because the people being murdered aren't white. A power structure that thinks it is the natural order of life for nonwhites to live oppressed isn't going to intervene consistently to free the rest of the world.
The American media doesn't publish a lot of articles or broadcast a lot of stories about human rights abuses in China.
The examples of the myopia that's going to be the undoing of democracy are too numerous for me to write about.
