This is the "liberal cultural hegemony led to Trump winning the presidency" line of reasoning, with liberal cultural hegemony used as a coded term for mild representational anti-racism/sexism/homophobia to better portray their victim complex as more legitimate
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However, the big issue is that even if we accept that as the most important factor in why these people voted for Trump, or are going on murder sprees, it is a non issue, because the bodily autonomy of women and POC are non starters.
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If that population cant be convinced to vote in support of individual leftist policies on the grounds of material concerns, then they are effectively irreconcilable and should be forgotten in favor of non voters.
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The Incel debate is just the extreme example of society bending over backwards to enable the entitlement of white males and insisting that A) all white males feel this way B) it is natural C) we have to work to not alienate them on those grounds or else they'll do bad things
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It is not a sign of maturity or pragmatism to make concessions these grounds of the imagined grievances of any Male, White person, straight person, etc. You can be civil but at a certain point you just move on and try to change the circumstances that breed them
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