• matjoeman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But that second meaning is a bogeyman. No one says “I am a feminist” and means that.

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      No one? There are 8 billion people screaming out whatever random ideas occurs to them for hours a day across the planet. You can’t make that statement about anything anymore.

      Also there is also just plain misinformation campaigns. People creating strawman arguments pretending to be on the other side.

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        Then they’re not really feminists. Just like the people who say they’re Christian but then say helping the poor is socialist garbage.

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            The No True Scotsman fallacy isn’t about people who claim to be something arbitrarily. Its about gatekeeping to preserve some kind of integrity or quality for the sake of an argument.

            If I say “I’m a communist” but then espouse only fascist beliefs and display an ignorance of primary tenets of communism, am I really a communist just because I say I am?

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              Again, I get where you’re coming from.

              The reality of the situation is that a movement is full of factions. People aren’t a monolith and they think differently and feel differently. Jk Rowling considers herself a feminist, and she is an iteration of what a feminist can look like sadly.

              Think of religious sects, they all fall under the same umbrella of Christianity or Judaism or what have you, but have radically different beliefs and feelings.

              They get involved in protests and push their agendas just like any other group of people.

              Or tankies! They fucking suuuuuuck and they are communist! I like communism by the way, but tankies can eat and then shit out some Lego blocks.

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      Take a look at the difference between 2nd, 3rd and 4th wave feminism… The consider post feminism arguments.

      What most people consider feminism is typically called 2nd wave feminism.

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      But the right has been convinced they do. Just like how they think CRT means “teaching white kindergartners that they should feel bad for being white and are inferior to Black kindergartners.”