Unpopular Opinion
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Vote the opposite of the norm.
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- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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That's quite a stretch, I'm not saying that at all.
All Lives Matter was something that was intended well - but missed the point completely. While Bernie originally said it trying to say that all lives should matter, it missed the point because the movement was specifically saying that black lives matter - because all too often people forget that black lives do in fact matter. In the opposite, we don't need all lives matter because society as a whole already knows that white lives matter - what they were fighting for was that black lives also matter.
You're feminism argument I feel is trying to argue the same thing. Society already knows men should have rights and equality. That's not the point of the feminism argument. Feminism is that women specifically deserve those things.
Saying feminism should be more about all equality is the same as saying all lives matter - it may be well intentioned, but it minimizes the actual issues they are facing. We know that men and women should be equal, but men have all of society and thousands of years of history on their side already, women can have feminism on their side. Men have enough already fighting for them.
Think of it by adding a "too" or "also". Black lives also matter. Women deserve equality too. It's because they're the outside groups.