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tanya marquette's avatar

While I agree there is major imbalance in prosecution let's be real. The classism, sexism and while male privilege is core to what this country is about. Sex trafficking is also always assumed to be wealthy white males being predators of young girls. It ignores that many young males are also victims. The ruling elite are always seeking greater thrills and part of it is loving to thwart laws and human rights. They have no respect for the general public--ever. And they have no compunction at using people for objects of titillation for their abusive predation. Of course one needs to remember that these people really do not share the same human values that many of us hold dear. But until there is a serious change in structural power in this country nothing will really ever change which is why all political arguments concerning the public are always only bandaid issues and never address real power relationships

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Curtis's avatar

I beg to differ... If they were just "regular" people, they'd be locked up. The clients are people in government and the courts.

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tanya marquette's avatar

But that is the point--they are not 'regular' people but elites who count on the power vested in that high sense of entitlement which is based on white male elitism and the power of their money and political contacts to cover their sorry butts.

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tanya marquette's avatar

While you correctly note the prejudice that exists, even among people supposedly of the same group or position, you incorrectly describe the problem of women imitating white men. It is the nature of a power structure that others most often try to be like the ruling elite in order to try and get into their club. And since most people who come from a bottom position work in isolation as they try to move up the economic/political/social ladder they are in an isolated and weak position to try and be different. We, in the feminist movement of the 1960's called this internalized sexism; ie, women trying to be like the very males that historically oppressed women. It is also a divisive process often resulting in women abusing other women in order to show they are not like them but like the men they are trying to impress. The solution seems to be that all must rise together. It is well known that only when there are enough people who were historically repressed and abused that come together that it is even possible to work on changing that abusive structure. It is also why white males work very hard to prevent those historically disadvantaged from uniting and gaining strength. They know there is strength in numbers which is why divide and conquer is always used to maintain the power structure. So please stop focusing on Democrat women as if they are different from the GOP women and the Catholic women who go out of their way to be more white male than the white men themselves.

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tanya marquette's avatar

You don't understand this system. It is based on white male supremacy and it does not matter that many white men have no real power. They identify with it and act our of that identity in their daily lives. And sexism forces women to subordinate themselves to that white male standard of power often pandering to it in the hopes they will be allowed to join the club. It is delusional but women do that often treating other women in abusive and demeaning ways imitating their white male leaders. It is sick but understandable: it still needs to be called out and requires change.

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Renee Marie's avatar

WTF are you talking about? Seriously? My God...you are part of the brainwashed problem...which is a pile of nonsense!

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Andrea's avatar

I’ll also add this since I’m unable to edit. The Russians did this during the Vietnam war, they fanned the flames on college campuses. I look at everyone who peddles racism, sexism and any and all ism, as an agent, knowingly or unknowingly, you’re peddling division and hate.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/china-conducting-race-baiting-social-media-campaigns-polarize-americans-former-cia

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Kathleen Devanney. A human.'s avatar

Sorry but you've been well indoctrinated. There are always elements of 'truth' embedded in propaganda, so it's a matter of proportion, what is left out, and orientation. You've come to a conclusion that is highly limited and charged with an agenda to keep divisions going. It does not serve you or anyone else.

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Andrea's avatar

You need to read Nation of a Victims. Your post embodies everything I despise about Americans today.

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Teri Terrell's avatar

Extremely well said. Thank you.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

They’re not white males, they’re Jews.

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Curtis's avatar

I'd be careful about just blaming "Jews". While the Deep State is full of them, they are not real Jews. Much has been written about how the Rothchilds and their ilk co-opted "Jewish" heritage many years ago. The true Jewish People are "the apple of God's eye", and God will not be mocked.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

Well if you want to get all biblical about it, then you need to re-read

Romans 2:28-29

Phillipians 3:3

Galatians 3:16

Romans 9:7-8

Galatians 3:28-29

Matthew 3:8-9

John 8:37-47

1 Thessalonians 2:14-16

John 8:24

1 John 2:22

John 8:18-19

John 3:36

Acts 22: 17-21

2 Peter 2

2 John 9-11

Revelation 2:9

Revelation 3:9

You know..l. If we’re going to be citing the Bible and all….

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Chelie's avatar

Thanks for sharing!

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tanya marquette's avatar

Something to keep in mind is that people often embody multiple identities. One's religion is only one of them and often it is NOT the leading motivation. When you talk about the oligarchy and its sub cohorts money and power are more the driving factor in a capitalist society such as ours. Further, if one focuses on religion then we can make similar claims t those in all religions as everyone of them has a nefarious history of promoting bigotry and abuse. As such perhaps we can argue that all religions should be banned. Actually this has been promoted in the past as Marx called religion the opiate of the masses and Russia attempted to ban religions after the revolution as it was seen to be counterproductive to creating a new State with a different mindset. Something to think about. Personally, what I would say is that there is a very big difference between real spirituality and religion.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

Lol. She pointed to karl Marx…oh the irony… irony in name only, of course..,

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tanya marquette's avatar

Your bigotry is sick and totally off base. It is their white male privilege that drives them as it always has in this country from the very early days. Learn real history and deal with your hate based belief system.

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Curtis's avatar

Your "blame white males for every evil" mentality reeks of "Progressiveism". There have been billions of us throughout history, and we've also been instrumental in founding the greatest country on Earth, abolishing slavery and numerous other accomplishments. That being said, we're happy to acknowledge the many accomplishments of women and non-whites. Why do you and your ilk love to cherry-pick everything we've done that isn't perfect?

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

We as a civilization are going right into oblivion playing the blame game.

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tanya marquette's avatar

It is not about blame Leslie but about understanding what is really happening and how we got here. It is about learning the underside of this country in order to see how it has affected us all and disempowered us. It is about learning so we can make meaningful decisions about creating the change we all want and need and deserve for real improvement in our lives and our ability to make real decisions about that.

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tanya marquette's avatar

First of all, being Progressive is something to be proud of. It promotes understanding of the structural basis of power and how to change that when the power is unequally owned. Second, when you do study the nature of power relationships in this country and how they developed and continue to be enacted you learn that racism and sexism and classism have formed the structures of power. So it matters not that some accomplishments were made by white males. It matters more that the ability to create such accomplishments was/is not equally shared. Even worse when such accomplishments are made by historically disadvantaged people they do not get easy credit. Just look at the histeria about teaching CRT on college levels. White people are beside themselves that their children might learn something about this country and its roots; that they might learn that all those wealthy white men did really horrendous and rotten things to people of color and to women. And even working people took a lot of assault when they tried to unionize for better work and wage conditions. Actually those goon squads hired by mine owners were the beginnings of Hoover's FBI. But white workers, allowing themselves to be divided from their class alliance by race chose to attack Black workers and weakened their own real political power. And that divisiveness was used to turn the South from Dem to GOP solely based on playing the race card. So yes, white supremacy is critical in this country and needs to be understood if any real progress towards equality is to ever be achieved. So when you attack Progressiveness you are really saying your prefer reactionary politics that takes us back to a time when even white males cannot even be assured of a minimum wage much less any of the other benefits for which hard battles were fought--and they include Blacks, Latinos and Women.

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

Progressives in this country are socialists. They are tearing this country apart with hatred. CRT is taking race relations back 50 years. It’s bringing back segregation. It’s making transgenderism a fad, destroying the lives of children & their families. Breaking up the family unit. There is absolutely nothing wrong with masculine men & feminine women & the roles they play in a sane world.

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tanya marquette's avatar

Sorry Leslie, your are citing right wing narrative that is based solely on bigotry and fear. it certainly has nothing to do with truth or reality. Like Russia, socialism has been used as a boogeyman to scare uninformed people into submission to a system that is based on syphoning wealth to the few at the expense of the general public. No one attack sex gender roles but they are not the only base for human relationships and you seem not to understand that. And these gender relationships are not what makes a sane world--they only make you feel comfortable. It is your responsibility to deal with your discomfort at the idea of other forms of family relationships. It may be your sanity that is at question and that is your problem, not mine.

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

WOW. You are questioning my sanity. How old are you? How much life have you lived? Which twisted generation are you a part of?

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

BTW do you know that CRT is antithetical to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & totally Unconstitutional? My generation made it safe to keep your freedom of speech which you progressives are trying to take away with your censorship.

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Curtis's avatar

... when you do study the nature of power relationships in this country and how they developed and continue to be enacted you learn that racism and sexism and classism have formed the structures of power." This tells me all I need to know about why you are so delusional... I'm sorry.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

You’re the one calling out white males like that’s acceptable.

Epstein was a Jew, Maxwell was a Jew, the judge who sealed the records was a Jew. FBI, CIA, DHS…Jews.

If we’re going to discuss race, which you brought up, then let’s do it. Let’s discuss race.

You better start with the Jewish role in the trans Atlantic slave trade, and their role in the confederacy.

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

Jew is NOT A RACE. YOU ARE SO IGNORANT.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

If Jew is not a race, then why a DNA test for Jewish birthright citizenship?

What “race” isn’t a race, but literally tries to trace their genealogy back to 12 original tribes. LOL…Your last name is literally from the tribe of Benjamin….

“It’s not a race… it’s not a religion… it’s nothing. You can’t even mention it!!!… LMAO

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

It’s a religion & a nation. You can trace genetics because up until recently there was very little intermarriage outside the religion. It has nothing to do with race. There are Jews of every color from black to white & in between. More ignorance.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

Well my bad, the Jewish newspaper “The Forward” says Jews are a race.

https://forward.com/culture/155742/jews-are-a-race-genes-reveal/

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

Did you read the entire article or just the headline? Because it’s more nuanced than just ‘Jews are a Race.’

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

What I’m saying is… in modern lexicon, the word “race” is used to discuss a specific group of people. There’s the Irish race, the German race, etc etc… when discussing “people who call themselves Jews”, they’re not saying Jewish national, because that would entail an Israeli citizen. They’re not saying Jewish religion, because that would entail religious connotations (and I don’t think any of us would want to call Jeffrey Epstein a “religious Jew”).

So the word race is used, because it fits the best. When John Stewart says he’s a “Jew” he’s not saying “I’m a temple going, unleavened bread eating, head covering Jewish man… he’s literally saying, to the rest of the world that he’s not of any white race, or black race, he’s of a Jewish race.”

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

No, sorry. We were a nation when wandering in the desert. A nation as in ‘a people.’ Not as in a country.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

I dunnooo….. I mean, I feel like we’re really playing word games here. Like, I have to call semantics in this… everyone uses the word “race” to mean a specific group of people..like a “race” of anglo saxons, or a “race” of Germans… I don’t see how a very specific ethno group , who’s very concerned about DNA, lineages, and family trees, gets to say, “yeah but it’s not a race”…

Seems a little word gamey to me….

I mean if someone said to me, “the Irish race” I don’t think I’d be arguing with them about the whole semantics of haplogroups and all that.l,I kind of think I’d know what they meant.. I mean, when someone asks my wife her race, she says Congolese…

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

If that means she comes from the Congo, that’s her nationality. Not her race.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

Her DNA comes from the Congo. Her nationality is American.

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

Has she had her DNA study done? You don’t know that it originated from the Congo. If she’s an American citizen then yes her nationality is American. If you would see a map of 25,000 years & the movement of people across the globe & you know your haplotype then you know your origin. And you don’t get that from Ancestry.com I don’t believe.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

Pointing out facts isn’t hate. I was neutral in my statement. I never said that was bad. How do you know? Maybe I like pedophile islands in the ocean and I was bragging.

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

You can’t dig yourself out of this hole by making a joke.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

I’m not in a hole.

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

Johnny ‘Truthseeker’ has shown his ignorance and bigotry on other substacks. He never misses a chance to bash Jews.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

Oh I forgot. I should’ve clarified. The Jews in name only (sorry, old habits and typing fast).

I’m just pointing out that the power structure isn’t white males. I mean, if it’s okay for her to call out white males, and THATS not bigoted, then honk honk.

I’m pointing out that the Jews in name only run google

The Jews in name only run YouTube

The Jews in name only run all major media corporations

The Jews in name only run the IVY league schools

The Jews in name only run Duck Duck go

The Jews in name only run private sector DNA collection

The Jews in name only run the federal reserve

The Jews in name only run the CIA

The Jews in name only run DHS

the Jews in name only run the FBI

The Jews in name only run the state department

The Jews in name only run Ukraine

The Jews in name only are pushing for a world war over Ukraine

The Jews in name only run Disney

The Jews in name only run the largest financial sectors in the USA

The Jews in name only run the banks

The Jews in name only run Hollywood

The Jews in name only closed all of Kanye Wests accounts for saying naughty things…

Yeah..us “white males” have all the power structure. Which is why it’s okay to openly insult the, and blame them at every turn…

But God forbid you insult the Jews in name only.

That’s just bigoted….

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

WOW I had no idea that ‘we’ had so much power. So how come all the leaders of all the countries in the world except Israel are not Jewish, not counting Zelensky, because he’s a rotten POS. How is it that the UN & the Human Rights Council spend all their time passing condemnations of Israel? Jew hatred is all over the place because of people like you. You really don’t know the difference between a real Jew & a JINO.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

I literally typed “Jew in name only” in front of each of those names, and your so blinded by nepotism and ingroup preferences, that you reply that I didn’t just literally type the word “Jew in name only” like 500 times.

Furthermore, you deflect. The original claim was. THE ORIGINAL CLAIM WAS…. That WHITE MALES hold all institutional power in this country, I corrected the false, racist, anti white bigoted statement, by pointing out that all major institutions (where institutional power is held) are actually run by people who call themselves Jews.

Your “deflection” by pointing that the UN says hurry words to Israel doesn’t change anything.

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

Your Jew in name only can only be taken as sarcasm unless otherwise stated.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

Maybe be proud of the fact that Jews run every major institution in the country, instead of deflecting and getting angry when someone points it out. Damn. If every single one of those positions was held by someone of my race, I’d be bragging about it. Unless there’s something to hide…. Seems kind of odd to work your ways to the top as a people, only to shriek when someone points it out…

Very strange indeed.

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

Like you point it out as a positive!

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

Well before you decided to jump in, the OP was blaming white males for hoarding all the power, I stated that the people she’s claiming have all this power aren’t white, they’re Jewish. I backed it up with facts.

Now, had I said “yeah, let’s get rid of them” or “and they shouldn’t have that power”… well then, we’d be having a different discussion. Sheesh, I even went back and noted it was all “in name only”… just for you.

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tanya marquette's avatar

Yes, I see that but he still needs to be confronted. He really represents THE problem with promoting real democratic ideals in our pluralistic society.

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

I confront him constantly, I’m getting bored with him. He’s a moron.

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Renee Marie's avatar

You need is some Jesus Christ. You’re angry and want to blame others for your insecurities. You wear it QUITE well. Grow up!

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tanya marquette's avatar

And perhaps you need to stop your blaming others and insulting them because you don't know how to disagree in a real conversation. And if you want to talk about JC, I can note he would not be on your side.

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Renee Marie's avatar

Jesus would probably laugh! I doubt Jesus takes sides on stupidity.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

And for someone so concerned about “ignorance” and “bigotry”, you humanitarian, you. You were awfully quiet when the white men were being bashed and blamed for all of societies ills…..

Hmmmmmmmmmm…. Interesting, that.

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

People like you take up a lot of my time. Am I supposed to fight your battles while you are unmercifully verbally slaughtering my people.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

“Verbally slaughtering” wow that’s a new one.

How often do you speak out against anti-white statements and anti-Christian statements from people with institutional power, like John Stewart, Seth Rogan, Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, amongst many others?

When John Stewart says “blacks and Jews should, “get whitey” do you get upset. Or is it only “verbal slaughter” when someone points out the institutional power Jews have in this country, with zero anger or vitriol attached to the statement. Kind of telling the visceral reaction one gets from merely stating facts…

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Leslie Benjamini #🟦's avatar

I never heard Jon Stewart say “get whitey” IMO John Stewart is a progressive moron. Actually all those people that you just mentioned are Hollywood JEW IN NAME ONLY idiots. They give the rest of us a bad name. THATS WHAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND.

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Johnny truthseeker's avatar

I literally typed, “Jew in name only” like 500 times, just for you. And what are you concerned about, you literally said you’re not a race. So if you’re not a race, and they’re not Jews, then why in the hell are you so worked up that someone pointed out, hey , John Liebowitz said “Jews and blacks should get whitey”…. I think I’m the one that should be concerned here. They’re literally threatening my life, I just pointed out they said it….

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