- 20 Apr 2020 19:16
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Just because the discourse is overwhelmingly occurring in Western nations does not mean that it is being selectively applied.
If your rape culture discourse begins to fixate on, for example, Indigenous culture or Islamic culture, it automatically becomes more complex. The inquirer must now question whether the motivation here is good faith discourse or bigotry. No matter how convincing the argument might be, the fetishistic premise of focusing on particular subsets of people makes everything more complicated.
It's an anti-Semitic and fascist conspiracy theory, but okay.
My apologies, that was Rich who made the comments I was thinking of.
jakell wrote:I know there is a difference.. the "rape culture discourse" is a (conveniently) abstract and generalised notion, however in reality is is usually selectively applied to Western nations, and the source of the idea is Western too.
Just because the discourse is overwhelmingly occurring in Western nations does not mean that it is being selectively applied.
In talking of Islam I'm countering this selectivity by pointing out a culture where it is far more open, entrenched and marked, and how that concentration tends to be ignored. In other words, in spite of flowery assertions that it applies universally (and allegedly to men too), it is a political tool that , in common with most of the products of Third Wave Feminism, is aimed at Western power structures alone - it's nothing to do with equality and egalitarianism.
If your rape culture discourse begins to fixate on, for example, Indigenous culture or Islamic culture, it automatically becomes more complex. The inquirer must now question whether the motivation here is good faith discourse or bigotry. No matter how convincing the argument might be, the fetishistic premise of focusing on particular subsets of people makes everything more complicated.
This last aligns with the mention of 'Cultural Marxism' from above. Even though I believe CM to be a crude construct, it does seem to align in places with a concerted attack on the West alone, so I have some time for its proponents.
It's an anti-Semitic and fascist conspiracy theory, but okay.
I've made no mention of any indigenous peoples at all, perhaps you are using haphazard SJW lexicon and hoping that no-one will notice due to the emotional fog that usually surrounds these fluffy concepts.
My apologies, that was Rich who made the comments I was thinking of.
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