Who is more likely to be a racist, feminists or anti-feminists?

Question

Or do you believe there is no correlation between being a racist and being a feminist or anti-feminist?

Your thoughts? Your experiences?

Answer 1

My experience is that feminism is one of a bunch of similar ideas, all making the point that all humans are human.

Thus, all the human rights movements go together.

This is my experience of the feminists I know; they oppose all the "ists" that deny groups their humanity and their rights.

Feminism isn't what defines any of the feminists I know; they're pro-human. Feminism is one belief in human rights, among all the others.

The feminists I know believe in racial equality, gay rights, and rights of disabled people.

Answer 2

Logically, I'd say the anti-feminists, because if you're willing to believe that half the population is inherently worth less than the other half, what does it matter if you're basing that on gender or race? And if you believe in equal rights for all, then all means, you know, _all_. In real life, though, I don't think there's much correlation. People just don't behave all that logically, and there are more than enough bigoted feminists. That's not to even go into the fact that almost every American is at least subconsciously racist just from growing up in this culture.

Answer 3

['Both are driven by a deep seeded, irrational, brooding hatred of those different from them. The feminist hates men. The racist hates anyone of a different racial background."] Yep, that right there pretty much sum it up IMO. Feminists are like racists in that they are also bigots who hate a specific group of people (men).

Answer 4

Anti-feminists are more likely to be racist because they want it to be business as usual. And that favours both racism and sexism in this society.

Feminists are less likely to be racist because we want all women to have equal rights and the chance to try to do what we want to in our life as men have. Every feminist that I have met believes this should be true for all races.

Answer 5

I think it's about even. Anti-feminists tend to be prejudiced against People of Color, while feminists tend to be predjudiced against the Melanin challenged.

Ideologies tend to make people think in terms of groups and ignore the fact that everybody is entitled to respect just for being human.

That's what people didn't get, and what I loved about Archie Bunker. For all his bluster, he always TREATED people like people.

The root word of Ideology is "idiot."

Answer 6

No connection or correlation whatsoever. And we are all inherently racist or sexist to some extent, man, woman, white, black, sky-blue-pink, or whatever.

... and for just saying that I straightaway get a thumbs down. Where are some of these people coming from.

Answer 7

If there was any correlation at all, which I doubt, anti-feminists would be more likely to be racists. This is because their worldviews are more segmented — they tend to think of people on an individual basis less than feminists do.

Answer 8

I doubt there's any correlation between either, but it is interesting to swap 'man' and 'blacks' for 'whites' and 'germans' when reading feminist quotes... if we do swap the terms, feminists sound extraordinarily racist.

"all black are rapists..."
"we need to need to depopulate the blacks to 10%"...

pretty bad eh

Answer 9

No correlation. It's been a great disservice to the liberal cause (of which I consider myself a proud part) to reflexively accuse everyone else of being racist.

Answer 10

Any group of people who find it acceptable to discriminate against another group of people, are least likely to differentiate between the groups they discriminate against. People who discriminate, do so indiscriminately. It is their lack of ethics which allows this.

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