Has anybody been keeping up with the news surrounding Bahar Mustafa? I find it really disturbing, and a good example of 'Queer rights', 'Womans rights' and 'Ethnic rights' crossing the boarder into bigotry, judgement and hate speech. Those rights should be upheld and heard, but it should never serve as a veil to hide behind in order to incite violence and division, even if you claim you meant it in a jokey way once you get called out. “But we have it worse†is not an excuse. Becoming blind will not help a blind man see. I find that very cowardly. There seems to be a perception out there that only white men can be guilty of racism, and only men in general guilty of sexism.
A quote from Bahar Mustafa “I, as an ethnic minority woman, cannot be racist or sexist towards white men, because racism and sexism describe structures of privilege based on race and gender,â€
Even if that was how it's defined, which it's not, it still wouldn't work as a proposition. Even some of the most hardcore feminists acknowledge (depending which country you hail from) the child custody arrangements and legal assumptions in existence are completely structured against men. As somebody who has done a little bit of work in the area of Child Support payments, let me assure you there are just as many mothers who want nothing to do with their child. This is just one example out of MANY within Family Law. If people like Bahar think that there aren't structures in favor of woman based on their gender then they have either not researched the facts or they are just in denial.
But back to her actions, excluding white men from attending and engaging with a student union meeting for ethnic people is something all of society should be concerned about. What kind of messages are being spouted? What kind of misinformation is this misguided person feeding to other impressionable students? And how is hashtagging Kill all White Men acceptable? She might see it as a cute in-joke, but it only takes one who doesn't. Especially when you're operating inside of a University where young adult's brains have not fully developed.
What disgusts me even more is how left wing radicals are peddling this crap as well. They clearly come at it from a much different perspective than I do, using shock and irony as their approach. "Doesn't feel so good does it!?" is not a wise approach to take - it just encourages further venomous responses and discourages unity. African-American studies lecturer Dr Linda Chavers states
“for some reason nuance goes out the door when a non-white person dares to demonstrate intelligence and play with language. It's crazy the level of vitriol that people of colour face for emoting anything besides graceful quiet graceful sorrow. “
Utter rubbish. When we saw Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a United States fraternity at an Oklahoma University chanted racist words there was outrage, on all sides about it. White and blacks came together to protest and express outrage, acted as one for change and consequences. That group of students were exposed for being the type of people they are. Not once was this acknowledged as being okay from people who heard about it. But in Bahar's case, it seems like this kind of bigotry from left wing commentators, media and academics is being pushed as a way to punish all people of the same skin colour just because there is a concentration of racism in certain enclaves, or for the actions of our ancestors. Nobody is saying non-whites have to be sad, quiet and depressed about the many injustices that they experience - and indeed that's not what we have seen happen in incidents around the world. There should be consequences for that sort of hatred, especially in professional environments where everyone should be welcomed such as the work place, universities, just anywhere in general tbh.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...ing-the-hashtag-killallwhitemen-10266952.html - a sympathizer for Bahar who totally missed the point, actually many points.
