Steve QJ
2 min readApr 9, 2023

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😅 "Kid" now is it? No cutie-pie, not only have I repeatedly acknowledged that there are cultural problems in the police, I've also acknowledged that this instance doesn't preclude that possibility that everything the police do is based on white supremacy (I'd type "strawman" in all-caps but I know you've got that rhetorical tactic covered).

Which is why I have asked you, several times, to actually make that case. But you haven't. So I'm left with no choice at this point but to conclude it's because you can't. Vague allusions to grandparents and white supremacy do not an argument make.

I even asked you specific questions in my previous reply in the hopes that you'd answer them and clear up my white-supremacy infused confusion. But as usual, you've ignored them. The best you seem capable of is to type the occasional word in all-caps and list rhetorical fallacies that you don't seem to understand.

So I'll make one last try using the example you used. There absolutely is a problem of rape on college campuses. We agree. In fact, there's a problem of rape in society, full stop. Men are overwhelmingly guilty of this. So does that mean you, as a man, have been "deindividualised" by the patriarchy and are just a rapist who hasn't raped yet?

If you talk to a woman on a night out, are you upholding a system that perpetuates the rape of women (ooh, we're getting deep into radical feminist theory now!)? If you interact with a woman in any setting, and you get into some kind of argument, is the only lens to view that disagreement though one of patriarchy and sexual violence?

Can we acknowledge that rape is a very serious problem, carried out almost exclusively by men, whilst also recognising that only around 1% of men commit all sexual assaults and the actions of this minority can't lead is to sensible conclusions about the 99% of men who don't?

And furthermore, that if we want to actually ameliorate this problem, we would be better off carefully analysing the factors shared by men who commit rape, instead of stopping our analysis at the uselessly superficial level that they're men?

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Steve QJ
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