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Originally Posted by paulgiamatti
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I think you've just described quite well why the problem is such a persistent problem in the first place. It's not something that can be easily compartmentalized, isolated and quarantined. These issues are endemic, and systemic, and they're extremely difficult to deal with precisely because the forms they most often take are forms that we're all too familiar with. The rapist is often the friendly boyfriend whom everyone describes as "the nice guy". The racist is often the police officer who is known for being a well-rounded, level-headed family man. The bigot is often just your average, normal heterosexual who signs onto YouTube or the Project 1999 forums and uses "fag" and "gay" in every post as a derogatory remark.
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I don't want to be confused with advocating that there isn't anything wrong with society, only a fool would believe that. Part of being near the center is realizing that there is more than left and right, that there are more than two extremes.
Endemic issues need not necessarily be systematic.
Many cops are abusive > most cops are men > patriarchy. Is the type of correlation = causation that the evangelical right used to demonize homosexuals during the big AIDS scare.
Your own example of the nice guy being the rapist is equally disingenuous.
Your bigot example is simply wrong in the context of the internet.