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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imaging a body builder knocking out an old man or a small boy?

People's outrage would never reach criticality in those cases as men are currently viewed as expendable and a socially acceptable target of hate in general society at large

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're in a bananas level victim mindset if you genuinely think this. My whole state freaked out because the police shoved an old man over on camera once.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/buffalo-police-riot-man-pushed-video-new-york-video-a9550171.html