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dionthesocialist:

You see, white d00dz set up this thing called the patriarchy a long time ago. We all live under it. We actively try to tear it down, but that hasn’t happened yet. In the patriarchy, masculinity is seen as ideal. At the same…

White dudes have certainly done a veritable metric fuck tonne of repressing in the last 500 years or so, but the patriarchy goes WAY back before then. Check out any Abrahamic religion, the organisation of Nilotic tribes or the origins of foot binding, for example. History nerdin’.

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    There are still African cultures that are matriarchies… I wonder how different us Black men would behave if we were...
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    I’m not so certain they are still firing: I’m thinking that they gave black culture the means of production and let them...
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    i would maybe say that most white dudes aren’t sitting down planning it out as if all white dudes are the same and in on...
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    lol @ “the history doesn’t matter” wow. okay. can’t really keep from being poisoned when the manufacturers of the arrow,...