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But there is a systemic cause that predisposes some proportion of specifically white and male people to be racist and sexist through enculturation. I'm sorry, but that's just the reality: Not all white men, of course, but there are clear racial and gender lines in who voted for Donald Trump. The good ones who are not that way ended up that way by either resisting those societal pressures or being brought up away from bigoted people. I sure do appreciate those white men.
To claim it's just individual ignores the most nefarious cause of bigotry, that it's this societal phenenomon and a negative feedback loop.
If she insinuated she hears a lot of white men but didn't specify what kinds, that's because Twitter is a social media environment that by its own mechanics discourages people from being specific. I would argue that the bigger problem is Twitter/Bluesky/Mastodon. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
One would turn into the enemy they were fighting against if they said something like, "I hate all men" or "kill all men." There are situations where that might happen on social media, but I'm sorry we don't see eye to eye on this, but I just don't see that as being the case here. This particular tweet is ambiguous, but I'm not convinced it's targeting all men with its language.
I do agree that "patriarchy" and "men" are distinct terms that should not be mistaken for one another.