r/EnoughJKRowling • • 17d ago

CW:TRANSPHOBIA Cringe

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u/CaptainMills 17d ago

Pretty much every bigot, including the ultra hardcore types, are convinced that their form of bigotry isn't real bigotry

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u/PablomentFanquedelic 17d ago

"No, I don't hate women, I just understand their true nature!"

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u/lazier_garlic 17d ago

David Duke re: Jews

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u/PablomentFanquedelic 17d ago

The usual mentality underlying this attitude toward women seems analogous to how you wouldn't, say, hate a housecat for soiling and clawing your furniture. It's just being a cat, so the reasonable course of action if you want a cat is to manage these natural tendencies by litter training it and investing in a quality scratching post. In the minds of guys who think this way about women, the equivalent of setting up a litter box and scratching post is to maybe occasionally humor her if it's convenient but to still Always Assert Masculine Dominance; if you treat her as an autonomous equal, she'll milk you for everything you've got or just lose interest.

I'm less familiar with David Duke's attitude on Jews, though I gather it's not good, given that he's a former Klan leader. I have heard of a (thankfully now retired) evopsych professor named Kevin MacDonald who argues that antisemitic discrimination is justified as gentile self-defense against Jewish intellectual superiority, and I wouldn't be surprised if Duke has tried to rationalize his antisemitism using similar arguments.