• IninewCrow
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    12012 days ago

    Are you kidding? … it was the great old days for Straight White Christian Men … they were free to be completely racist aholes, treat women like slaves, have as many children as they wanted and not take care of any of them, have the world at their feet, make a ton of money just for being who they were and they were accountable to no one.

    The reason why the past was so great for a small segment of society was that it was so shitty for 99% of rest of the world

    • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      5212 days ago

      I’m a white Christian man, and that sounds awful.

      I don’t understand how people can want to live in that world.

      • @Xoriff@lemmy.world
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        5312 days ago

        It’s easy if you don’t know how shitty the other 90% have it. That’s the thing about privilege. The folks who have it assume that everybody has it like they do (i.e. that privilege isn’t really a thing, everybody has equal opportunity, racism is dead, etc).

        • Signtist
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          2812 days ago

          I dunno, I grew up with the “there are kids starving in Africa” spiel and other such lectures. For my family, it was more like the idea that “lesser” parts of the world had problems because they were “lesser,” and if anyone is suffering in America it’s because they brought that “lesser” mindset with them from elsewhere.

        • @Soup@lemmy.world
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          712 days ago

          Different guy here but I get it. That sounds truly heinous. There have plenty of “socially accepted” things that I just cannot get behind because it’s obviously wrong. Like, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that maybe enslaving human beings, even when your society doesn’t fully count them as such, or hitting your wife is bad.

      • @Lucky_777@lemmy.world
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        612 days ago

        Look what MAGA did, they pushed the narrative that the white man is getting pushed out of society. Even though the United States is mostly White Christians. They just believed what these bitches told them, didn’t bother to look at facts.

        That’s the real crime.

    • Owl
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      812 days ago

      Straight White Christian Men

      Straight White “Christian” Men*

        • Owl
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          12 days ago

          What americans are doing is most of the time not Christian but rather the complete opposite

            • @IttihadChe@lemmy.ml
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              011 days ago

              Christianity is Christianity.

              What some people do based on a misguided and uninformed interpretation of Christianity is their own decisions masked behind Christianity.

              Most Americans aren’t Christian scholars, id wager most haven’t even studied the Bible themselves, but listen to whatever their preacher tells them.

              • Maeve
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                111 days ago

                And if it’s anything good, still don’t attempt to follow.