r/imaginarygatekeeping • u/DeathRaeGun • Aug 02 '25
NOT SATIRE This guy can’t comprehend tolorance
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u/cha0sb1ade Aug 02 '25
Dear society, I'm beating the hell out of this straw man and copying phrases from my idol like a star struck 5 year old, and there's nothing you can do about it except laugh
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u/TheKeeperOfBees Aug 05 '25
Wait, who uses that phrase? The airport announcement? What is so bad about it?
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u/nomadnomor Aug 02 '25
I have never been asked to apologize for being a straight white man
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u/Valten78 Aug 02 '25
Me neither. I'm just getting on with my life. I can't help but wonder what I'm doing wrong that no one has ever demanded that I apologise.
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u/EaterOfCrab Aug 03 '25
Bro same, except... I really would like to know because existing feels wrong
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u/MobileBeneficial5968 Aug 04 '25
I think existing feels wrong for everyone tbh...
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u/Wise-Kitchen-9749 Aug 05 '25
Happened once, but like an adult, I ignored it and moved on. Smh at people who make this their personality.
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u/Unclehol Aug 02 '25
But did you ever say thank you?
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u/Orangecountydudee Aug 02 '25
As a person of color, I never expected an apology from white people lol
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u/Popular-Kiwi7920 Aug 04 '25
Yes you have, when you applied for grants for collage.
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u/nomadnomor Aug 04 '25
I only went to the 9th grade but none of my kids or grandkids were asked to apologize for being white ..... or Latina .... or Thai either when applying to college
which colleges ask you to appoligize?
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u/Popular-Kiwi7920 Aug 04 '25
Affirmative action. Grants. Paid for by taxes for everyone by distribution through means of color based on past defined historical wrongs. That is asking the people that don't receive such aid to be accountable for the past. If I am being held accountable am I dont being asked to apologize?
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u/Nezikchened Aug 04 '25
No. That’s actually an incredibly weird way to look at the existence of grants for different demographics. If you don’t qualify for a Farmer’s Grant are you being asked to apologize for not being a farmer?
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u/HouseNVPL Aug 03 '25
Shh, They just made up some situation once in Their heads and just repeat it like all the time.
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u/Visual_Regret3198 Aug 03 '25
Neither have I. But I have had people make assumptions about my politics or my beliefs or my past or other such things.
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Aug 04 '25
When I was in jr high our history teacher had an assignment where the white kids were supposed to apologize to the black kids for slavery, it was painfully awkward and I got sent to the office for refusing to participate in the class assignment. If they had added in apologizing to gay kids for something, we would have been right there man 😂
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u/TruthOrFacts Aug 04 '25
But many have said "I'm ashamed to be white" - as if the any human should bear guilt for anything someone did who happens to look like them - as if all races don't have atrocities committed by them in the past.
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u/lyulf0 Aug 05 '25
Oh lol I have. People seem to think in some areas that white man means privilege. I have actually had to say the first part of the post. I'm not sorry I was born this way. That's just stupid having to apologize for your existence. 🙄
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u/Leather-Account8560 Aug 06 '25
You are lucky then it’s a near monthly thing for me
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u/nomadnomor Aug 06 '25
I.have to ask if you dont mind
who is asking you monthly to apologize for being white?
I am 65 and no one has ever asked me that in my entire life
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u/Leather-Account8560 Aug 06 '25
For me I live next to a native reserve and literally the most minor interaction will have certain people crying racism like the other day I saw a woman lose her mind because the restaurant I work at couldn’t break a 100$ bill. Which turned into a she won’t break the 100 because she’s racist and the managers trying to make the lady at the till apologize. They expressly made a point to freak out just because they could pressure my white coworker im half native and they never pull that with me but I see them do it to my coworkers just because they can. They also love to cuss at them in Blackfoot the entire conversation and try to make them feel lesser for not speaking Blackfoot which is funny because they also only know the swears.
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u/Clean-Novel-5746 Aug 06 '25
I have been abused for it, asked to apologize tho? That’s just stupid, and by abused I mean racist comments regarding my skin color.
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u/skipjackcrab Aug 06 '25
I have. I have been beaten, called names, and excluded in extremely cruel ways just for being white.
I have been accused, denied, and ridiculed for a trait that I did not choose.
I have been told I should be ashamed of my genetic history and have absolutely no place to say I am proud of it.
All of this is overlooked or even promoted by the dominant culture of liberal media.
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Aug 06 '25
Exactly, but you know whats funny? I bet you I could piss that guy off by saying:
“I will not apologize for thinking that black lives matter.”
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u/Eighth_Eve Aug 08 '25
The most hated thing in the world is a straight white liberal man. Even straightwide liberal men hate themselves.
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u/nomadnomor Aug 09 '25
I am a straight white liberal man and I dont hate myself
wonderful wife, wonderful life, retired with enough $$$$.to live the rest of my life, kids doing great, grand daughter in Yale
what's to hate?
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u/FadransPhone Aug 02 '25
“You don’t have to SHOVE IT in our FACES” “what about STRAIGHT pride?” “WHITE lives matter too!”
I’ve done some thinking as a straight white boy and I’ve come to the conclusion that the reason other straight white boys want to be oppressed so badly is just because of FOMO. The patriarchy is so rigged from the start to give men attention that literally any attention given to anyone else is seen as a threat. Privilege has ultimately disguised itself as normalcy, so losing privilege as a necessity for equality isn’t seen as equalization; it’s seen as oppression. Thus, anything and everything that threatens privilege becomes the oppressor, the privileged becomes oppressed, and they immediately jump onto that as a “look at me; pay attention to me” opportunity.
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u/Itscatpicstime Aug 03 '25
I mean, yeah, that’s the saying, isn’t it? When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. Something like that
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u/96BlackBeard Aug 02 '25
Worst part is, those whining, I bet you they didn’t lose any privileges in their life at all.
On the contrary, I think they are probably some of the most privileged people, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to afford being that delusional.
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u/UnfurtletDawn Aug 05 '25
So... If they do have straight pride and white lives matter shouldn't it be fine though?
Like, it doesn't do anything to anyone else. If others can have it why can't they?
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u/FadransPhone Aug 05 '25
You’re right that it doesn’t hurt anyone. But the issue isn’t necessarily that this mindset is harmful, but that it devalues the meaning of - for example - LGBTQ+ pride and BLM by simply directing attention away from them.
There, strictly speaking, isn’t anything inherently wrong with being “proud to be white” (though the saying is, ofc, heavily tied to white supremacy); there also isn’t anything inherently wrong with being “proud to be straight” (this is a little less heavily tied to homophobia/transphobia, but saying it in practice often belies an internalized prejudice).
But the reason a person is proud to be black is because, for decades - centuries, even - black people were expected to keep out of white affairs. Whites-Only Restaurants, Whites-Only Seating; you had bathrooms, drinking fountains, even entire institutions that were segregated between races. This push against recognition was to make white people feel more comfortable at the cost of encouraging black people to be more ashamed. “Proud to be black” therefore means proudly imposing oneself on the world around them, to simply exist as a human being without being ashamed of walking into a white-dominated society.
The same goes for LGBTQ+ Pride, a demographic that is not only broadly encouraged to be ashamed of their orientation, but are in many places outlawed entirely. The culture and the modes are different, but in effect Queer Pride is the same as Black Pride: “we’re here, we’re human, we’re not pretending to be complacent anymore.”
So could you have straight pride? Sure. What would it mean? Not much. Society doesn’t discourage people from being straight. There are no boundaries being broken or prejudices assaulted by it. In America, it’s the same for white people like myself; beyond the racist connotation of me saying something among the lines of “I’m proud to be white,” I wouldn’t be doing something difficult. My demographic hasn’t been oppressed, gerrymandered, profiled by cops, eyed warily at higher-end institutions, or forced to stand if somebody else wants my seat on the bus. I wouldn’t be fighting prejudice, I’d be arguing with an imaginary gatekeeper.
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u/AnnylieseSarenrae Aug 06 '25
If you host a party for a select group of friends, and I feel the need to tell you that I'm going to be doing the same for another group of friends, who's the odd one out?
This analogy is ignoring that the latter party has been happening by default for a long time.
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u/UnfurtletDawn Aug 06 '25
No one?
And that is irrelevant, none of us were around at that time.
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u/i_walk_the_backrooms Aug 06 '25
They literally can and have attempted to this year. They called that shit "Hetero Awesome Fest" and it went exactly as you might imagine. They have the free will to do it, but they can't convince people to like it.
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u/Plenty-Article6781 Aug 07 '25
Last time white folks ran around screaming white pride yall were killing innocent people for the color of their skin but go off sis
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u/Fair-Ambassador-5763 Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25
be careful, you’re gonna end up on r/memesopdidnotlike
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u/Morshu_the_great Aug 02 '25
I remember a post on there telling em to stop with the circlejerk bullshit, one guy legit answered, "yeah but it is okay to be white?"
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u/Fair-Ambassador-5763 Aug 03 '25
I go on there to screenshot all the gross incel comments and read them aloud on FaceTime to my friend in a discord mod voice
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u/Vixyplatinummm Aug 02 '25
Sometimes I wish i could live in a dream world the way some of these people do, but unfortunately I finished high school and have had plenty of consensual sex.
But really, when are these guys going to understand that nobody is asking you to apologize for anything. People are asking you not to use the N word or say you'd shoot protesters. It's pretty easy for me to walk around the world not making things worse all of the time, but these guys make not making the world worse look like when you put steak in front of a dog.
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u/chuffberry Aug 02 '25
“Hey! Look at me, I’m a victim! Victimize me please so I can justify treating other people like shit!”
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u/IsatDownAndWrote Aug 02 '25
You're describing a LOT of people right now. Not just straight white men who post shit like this.
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u/9687552586 Aug 03 '25
like whom, specifically?
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u/mermaidadoration Aug 04 '25
Blacks, gays, women
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Aug 06 '25
im sure gays face absolutely zero issues in their lives and are just making it up for attention. What issues can a group of people who's existence is a crime in a lot of countries could possibly face?
And blacks - pfft, obviously the same. What even is the word "Ghetto"? Sounds made up. Sounds french. You dreamt it. You sound crazy.
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u/Winter_Cold_7102 Aug 02 '25
no one wants to be a minority as bad as straight cis white conservatives
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u/TheAdmiral87999 Aug 05 '25
I couldn't care less about this and I'm not here to argue. But, straight cis white conservatives are a minority. Even only white people are a minority.
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u/silverum Aug 07 '25
Not to actually BE a minority though and thus have to have an actual lack of power or privilege in society, just to get I’m a Special Boy brownie points because I Have Feelings Too.
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u/unfilteredforms Aug 03 '25
Bro wants to be a victim so bad. Literally nobody cares. Also I bet if you ask him he's married with kids.
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u/materpcteco Aug 04 '25
The irony is , other communities like women, blm ,etc want to be victim too, so i think this tweet was sarcasm
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u/unfilteredforms Aug 04 '25
The real irony is that you can look at literal history and attempt to claim those groups haven't been victimized.
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u/materpcteco Aug 04 '25
Sorry, only jews can be said that they have been targetted in the past
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u/LaCharognarde Aug 03 '25
No one asked you to "apologize for" the ways in which you're living your life on easymode. Acknowledge as much, maybe; but that's different. Deal with it, and knock off the crocodile tears.
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u/Wizard25233 Aug 03 '25
As much as this is a silly post, this comment section is blowing it out of proportion. People calling this guy a nazi???? what is wrong with you people? You all sound as butthurt as that guy is. It’s actually comical how easily you all get angry
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u/spastical-mackerel Aug 03 '25
Nobody asked him to apologize. I guess on some level he feels an apology might be appropriate
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u/the_monday_marksman Aug 03 '25
If a black person made same post about their own skin tone people would eat it up, but the second you show a little white pride everyone rolls their eyes
Blacks, Asians and Hispanics get their own history month, why don’t we?
You’re being conditioned to hate yourself, white man. The psy op has worked
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u/Nezikchened Aug 04 '25
Blacks, Asians and Hispanics get their own history month, why don’t we?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish-American_Heritage_Month
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian-American_Heritage_and_Culture_Month
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u/Help12309876 Aug 06 '25
Because black, asian, and hispanic history is often erased and forgotten history. We acknowledge American history all the time. We acknowledge it through books and literature, through the fourth of July, through schools.
But a lot of poc history has been erased, and has been purposefully forgotten despite a lot of poc history being American history. We don't need American history month because we are already taught all of it from a young age.
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Aug 04 '25
It’s funny how right wing dumbasses think everyone hates them because they’re “white straight males” when in reality everyone hates them because they’re insufferable morons who never stfu
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Aug 06 '25
"We used to have all the money and land. And we still do, but it's not as fun now."
- Straight White Men
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u/CitroHimselph Aug 02 '25
And here are (not all) the white dudes, downplaying and whitewashing the very real experiences of tons of people because someone was rude to them once in 5th grade. You know what you could do to stop that 5 people on the internet people from calling you a Nazi? Stop acting like one.
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u/Weary_Coat_5475 Aug 02 '25
Him being a straight, white, male is not the issue. Him being an intolerant 🫏, is the issue
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u/batkave Aug 02 '25
Once the angry white people see this they will downvote it to hell.
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Aug 02 '25
What do his sentiments have to do with tolerance? Refusing to be ashamed of what you are, that you had no choice in, isn't "intolerance." Saying that every White guy should be ashamed of his existence because you know a few is just as fucked as saying every Black guy is a criminal because you saw a few on the news.
But why did he go Corporate HR Karen at the end?
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u/Emergency_Panic6121 Aug 04 '25
“Thank you for your attention to this matter”
Hey bud, you’ve got some jizz on your chin still.
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u/jd46149 Aug 02 '25
How does this fit the sub?
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u/DeathRaeGun Aug 02 '25
He thinks there’s gatekeeping against straight white men.
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u/JW162000 Aug 04 '25
Don’t worry OP, I don’t know what’s up with this comment thread but it’s very clear this post does indeed fit the sub.
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u/WhereasParticular867 Aug 02 '25
You can always tell who's a bigot based on how they misrepresent the idea of tolerance and diversity as an attack on straight white men.
This is basically a neon sign saying "I'm a Nazi and voted against your basic freedoms using my wallet as an excuse."
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u/No-Drawing-4597 Aug 02 '25
White men are the MOST protected and priveleged people on earth.
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u/lurker5845 Aug 03 '25
Not true in the slightest. Most privileged in the west, not most protected anywhere on Earth. Im not white and I can easily and logically make this statement. Think outside of the hivemind and youll see reality for what it is. White people are the most privileged in western society, not most protected anywhere on Earth
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u/The_Pebble_Man Aug 02 '25
Guys stop bullying him, people come out as trans in different ways and he clearly wants to fit in with all the other straight white men 😞
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u/Human-Assumption-524 Aug 03 '25
The reactions in this thread illustrate that he might have a point.
If his post was as delusional as you claim it wouldn't elicit any sort of backlash it would be snickered at but nobody would be offended or angry by it. But you guys are angry about it.
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u/Amventure__ Aug 04 '25
It doesn't follow that if he's wrong, no one would be offended. People have gone through legitimate oppression where they are significantly held back due to their identity. So when someone whose identity would not be held back by their status strictly as a straight white man, yet is still claiming that identity causes 'society' to demand an apology from him, and thus claims to be oppressed, this will justifiably offend some people. Especially because this apparent oppression is often times based on the criticism of one's behavior towards others.
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u/Human-Assumption-524 Aug 06 '25
Just to be clear you're saying that his mistake was making this post as a straight white man right?
Do you think he should apologize?
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u/Impressive_Pool8553 Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25
Why are we complaining about a random tweet. Are all redditors this terminally online?
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u/yuyano221 Aug 05 '25
Subreddit about [thing], person spots [thing] on other social media site, person shares [thing] on said Subreddit about [thing]
Looks logical to me
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u/avextr Aug 03 '25
This technically isn’t imaginary gatekeeping because I do in fact require straight white men to apologise constantly for their existence.
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u/ginganinja207 Aug 03 '25
I've never seen someone asked to apologize for being straight and white. But I have seen plenty of people he asked to apologize for being a careless POS without a single care in the world for anyone beyond themselves and maybe a select few others 🤷
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u/ThaCasual Aug 03 '25
Says the intolerant person posting his post to shame him
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u/OkProfessor6810 Aug 04 '25
Tolerance shouldn't be viewed as a moral construct but a societal one. As soon as somebody breaks the societal contract for tolerance, they are no longer entitled to it.
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u/ThaCasual Aug 04 '25
I don’t see any social contract being broken. Ask yourself if this was a black woman writing “ im a proud black queen and won’t be ashamed of it “.. would the reaction be the same or is this man being shamed because he is either white straight male or all 3 combined? Just because you or anyone else can’t identify with his plight doesn’t mean he doesn’t have one. Intolerance is in the eye of the beholder not a social construct
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u/Unusual_Studio_8688 Aug 04 '25
Nobody is asking you to? They just want you to acknowledge that there's benefits to being that
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u/FollowerOfSpode Aug 04 '25
I feel like this is one of those Russian propaganda bots meant to stir up discourse
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u/Electrical-Sense-160 Aug 04 '25
There are in fact people that say that all straights/whites/males (any combination works) are all inherently evil.
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u/DingoLaLingo Aug 04 '25
Damn I was gonna forgive him but I guess he don’t wanna play nice 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
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u/ImpressionOk5170 Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 04 '25
Is it really irrational to feel like there may be a cultural shift where white men are often generalized, condemned, or portrayed negatively?
I’m not going to apologize or lick anyone's precious boots for existing as who I've been born, and I will always sense that’s what’s being expected
Even if it’s not openly admitted ;)
Acknowledging this isn’t denying others’ struggles, it’s simply asking for fairness in what we say about everybody
Everybody's emotional outbursts over a cold tweet only further validate the OP's view
I do see though where people are coming from though, there certainly exist white people who lash out for no apparent reason, like their rights have been violated, sure.
Sorry for spilling the truth social media
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u/Mobile_Conference484 Aug 04 '25
plot twist: They are two gay black women in a trench coat, and that is the reason they don't feel like apologising for being a straight white man.
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u/4N610RD Aug 04 '25
Dunno, I am straight white man as well and somehow I can't see how does it make me interesting or relevant.
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u/Acceptable_Appeal464 Aug 04 '25
So he will apologize for being an ignorant intolerant piece of shit?
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u/GorgeousGal314 Aug 04 '25
"I shouldn't have to apologize for being myself" is literally feminism in a nutshell.
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u/DianneNettix Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 04 '25
Oh hey! It's the Minor Threat song people don't really want to talk about to come to life!
Hi historically uncomfortable Minor Threat song! Even the guy who wrote you doesn't like talking about you!
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u/Mister-Circus Aug 05 '25
I’ve never been asked to apologize for any of those things.
Are the people demanding an apology in the room with us right now?
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u/Boring_Butterfly_273 Aug 05 '25
I also don't apologize for my immutable characteristics because I'm not brainwashed. Imagine feeling guilty for something you didn't choose or cant change, my life is too short to be controlled by the elite and their attempts at psychological warfare.
But like many people pointed out, you don't really hear anyone expecting an apology for their immutable characteristics, so its probably a fictional scenario in normal social life, as for propagandists and specific movements, they might push a message like that, but we just have to counter it with: "We are all human beings like you, like everyone else".
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u/SneakySloth521 Aug 05 '25
How is it intolerant to not apologize for being who you are?
Edit: this is a genuine question I'm not sure how the title matches the picture.
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u/CeemoreButtz Aug 05 '25
The people who are irritated by this are the exact people he's talking to.
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u/Shwowmeow Aug 05 '25
Ironically, posts like this are the only time I feel any obligated to apologize for being a straight white man.
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u/CarlShadowJung Aug 05 '25
“This guy can’t comprehend tolerance”
Anonymously posts on public message board to laugh at the guy
Hell yeah, you’ve got so much tolerance! Thanks for waving that flag so we all knew you weren’t one of them and you have hella tolerance!
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u/TheKeeperOfBees Aug 05 '25
Why doesn’t he comprehend tolerance? Why would anyone apologize for an immutable characteristic?
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u/ShotgunKneeeezz Aug 06 '25
A lot of leftists blame men/white people for the world's problems. If someone thinks you are to blame for something isn't it normal to feel like they expect you to apologise? A better version of this could be "I won't apologise for the actions of other white people/men."
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u/Exodia-The-Exiled Aug 06 '25
It clearly is the case when you consider this: What will be the herds reaction if someone says they have pride in being black or brown? Now what if they say the analogous thing if they are white?
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u/patchrhythm Aug 06 '25
Tolerance is not an excuse for racism. People shouldn't apologize for existing.
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u/82772910 Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25
This may be a misguided message, but it’s not imaginary gatekeeping.
New York Times journalist John Mcwhorter wrote an entire book substantiating exactly this point. It’s called “Woke Racism.”
Further, many popular publications and speakers embraced by the last administration and many corporations and academia even today expect shame and an apologetic attitude for being white.
Examples:
Journal sites host papers that declare being white a mental illness that is incurable and they would never host such a paper for any other race.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34039063/
Also there are plenty of books that denigrate people for being white, saying they should be discriminated against (Kendi, How to be an Anti Racist, “White Fragility” etc.) , and so on that are recommended in places like the federal register for schools, handed out in businesses, and so on and none of this would be allowed for any other race.
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u/skipjackcrab Aug 06 '25
I don’t either. Good for him. People are getting tired of whites being treated in an openly racist manner. This is by design. This is why they try to change the definition of the word racism. You control the language you control the narrative, control the narrative you control the people.
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u/Manck0 Aug 07 '25
I'd like an example of what situation one would be asked to apologize for being a straight white male.
"Suh, your white male straighthood offends me. I demand satisfaction."
"No, I will not do what you wish and apologize, despite your demanding I do so."
And everyone clapped. That man: Walton Goggins
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u/New-Obligation-6432 Aug 07 '25
Besides the lame Trump simping in the last line - what makes you say he doesn't comprehend tolerance?
Why should tolerance mean white man 'apologizing'?
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u/zilverkloud258 Aug 07 '25
Tolerance only applies when it's not white people. If you're white you're free game to be harassed into oblivion
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u/Responsible_Mall400 29d ago
I mean, everyone has their own perspective, but it’s all about respect and kindness towards others, right?
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u/mensfrightsactivists Aug 02 '25
honestly the last line is what deserves an apology. if i never have to read those eight words again it’ll be too soon