Being able to say that as a political figure and not getting an unequivocal drumming down by everyone else shows how far gone the west is. There is no turning this ship around.

Downvote me all you want, pessimism is never popular but its often right.

It's a zero-sum game. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is pursuing power. Power means different things, in different contexts, but it always gets back to power.

The most obvious form of power is resources and money. But there are so many other forms. These identity and gender issues we've seen over the last 10 years have absolutely, undoubtedly been at the core about one thing: power.

Now before you get all upset, pursuing power isn't always a bad thing. If you've been historically marginalized, aren't you within your right as a human being to seek equality? The question really is in how you do it, and who suffers as a result, and how far you take it. It's very easy to swing the pendulum back too far, and end up in a society that may or may not be any better but just different.

I don't know about white and cis, but you can't argue with facts that men are overwhelmingly the source of individual violence (as opposed to wars, etc.).

> "I am a violence prevention minister and I know who causes violence in the world, it is white, cis men."

That may well be true, but its also true that the main victims of that violence are "white, cis men"

But people love to lump other people together by shallow characteristics because looking at individuals is hard, and looking at systems individuals live in.

Men and their ideals, are portrayed as inherently evil in a good chunk of western media. It's pretty obvious to anyone looking at the West from the outside.

It's also a reason why the West is failing, but certainly not the only one. Social Welfare states like Europe are burning, since it was never sustainable.

America is fighting among itself, because there is no Asabiyyah (social cohesion), and the wealth inequality (wealth pump) is growing massively.

Compare that with China or Singapore, where social harmony is perhaps the most important thing in their society, food is subsidized, education as a high priority, their laws are punitive, infrastructure is extremely new, etc.

The sex ration of completed suicides in the USSR as a whole between 1984 to 1990 was 3,9 men to 1 women.

That is, near exactly the same as in the 'capitalist' world then, and now.

(In the Slavic-predominant part of the USSR, that is Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, it was an even worse 4,6-to-1. Somewhat lower in Central Asia at ~2,7-to-1).

look at the sibling comment

> You're not a failure, you're just someone living in a capitalist society.

I think I need that on a T-shirt.

>Okay snowflake.

Isn't "okay snowflake" a vilification in itself?