A person afflicted by mysandry would not be sexist to threaten Mr. Thompson and then fail to do so to a female.
Glyn, I applaud your enthusiasms. That I disagree with the direction is minor; that I mistrust the apparent sources of your information is less so.
First, I'd like to vehemently disagree with your statement about government and ethnicity. Government should "care", insofar as an impersonal entity CAN be said to care, about every little thing that each of its citizens care about. This includes race, color, creed, gender, religious belief, and their desire (or lack thereof) for new gilding on the capitol dome's roof.
Whatever people prefer to be called, whether due to race, color, creed, philosophy, or pigheaded bloodymindedness is fine by me, so long as I don't end up calling someone else my lord and master if he hasn't earned that right -- and so long as people don't impose their name on other people that don't want it. Not even all Canadian East Indian adults prefer to be called "East Indian", and it's not my duty to force the name on them.
And wouldn't some of the Quebecois prefer to be called "French citizens" or "Citizens of a Free Quebec" to "Canadian"?
Secondly, I'd like to state adamantly that anything from a threat to an overt act of violence to a lukewarm message of support to a backhanded compliment to nuclear annihilation is a tactic. It can be condemned in response; that too is a tactic. It cannot be inherently wrong without a framework, without a context. To say otherwise is philosophically indefensible within the terms of societal change and geopolitics.
But that's for societies, cultures, governments, and the organs thereof. For individuals and action groups, whatever they be called, moral condemnation of certain acts is permissible within any society devoted to freedom of expression.
Nevertheless, to suggest that "threats are NOT OK", regardless of context, betrays a frightening absence of critical thought. Stop and reconsider it a bit.
I know; that's probably not what you meant.
But movements that fail to clearly express themselves doom themselves thereby.
I'm fine with the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, but I do wish they'd chosen a coherent platform. Right now I'm backing the "Occupy Your Damn Jobs Movement" instead; that at least seems practicable. (If anyone cares to join, it can be found on Facebook.) |
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