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Originally Posted by paulgiamatti
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That's one way to look at it, although I'd exchange Hitler for antisemitism as the tool, the thing that is instrumental in convincing and mobilizing a country of people who are already under the mass delusion that Jews should be the subjects of our hatred and contempt.
And in order to make this point relevant to the conversation, you'd have to swap radical feminism with antisemitism and cornerstone radical feminists with Adolf Hitler, and that just doesn't make any sense. For this scenario to be plausible you'd first of all need a group of people who operate under the pretense of misandry, and you'd have to be living in a world where this thing - the hatred of men - can be found everywhere, to the point that there would simply be no escaping it.
I don't really think that's a rationally sound thing to worry about. It reminds me of that other thread I started about new atheists - how certain militant atheists are neurotically, obsessively focusing on these trivial, benign injustices such as allowing people who agree to pray before their meals at a locally-owned breakfast diner to save ten cents on their bill.
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That's why I referred to Hitler as a multitool. Anti-Semitism did not fix the German economy, Anti-Semitism did not reunify and rebuild Germany into a world power. Anti-Semitism did not invent the rocket and jet engines. Those events gave the idol its godhood and allowed Anti-Semitism to flourish under a blind following.
Second wave feminism was much the same, they achieved great things and won all of their goals. When they did the respectable ones left because their work was done. The ones who remained were far from respectable though they were respected and idolized for participating in the previous achievements. This allowed radical feminism to flourish.
Same story, just replace the Jews with the patriarchy/white/cis/het/insert buzzword..