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Have you walked on a college campus? It's always days for Feminists, days for LGBTQ, days for the Environment, days for minorities, days for women, days for everything - but a man's day is never mentioned. And these days are advertised everywhere - on bulletin boards, in the bathrooms, on TV screens.

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Days for minorities and lgbtq include men though - are you implying men cannot be in any of the other groups you mentioned?

Try to organize a day for white heterosexual men and see what happens.

We have days for LGBTQ, women, and minorities because they are historically disenfranchised groups still dealing with societally systemic problems oriented against them. That is not true of white heterosexual men.

It'd be like trying to organize a day for people from multimillionaire families. It doesn't make any sense.

I see where you’re coming from but I’m not sure comparing to millionaire families is apt - but I’ve seen plenty of things organized for low-income, rural, and 1st gen students which all include white heterosexual men, and if the census is to be believed, are the majority in some areas. I’ve also seen things for specific nationalities at my university like German, Italian, etc - groups traditionally considered “white.”

I haven’t seen anything specifically for the broad encompassing group of white heterosexual men. Personally I think such a group would be meaningless as white heterosexual men encompass too many things. What would such a group even use as the mode of maintaining solidarity that wouldn’t be better served by a more specific group?

I don't see how that contradicts what I'm saying. Those are groups that don't historically have much representation in collegiate student bodies.

> We have days for LGBTQ, women, and minorities because they are historically disenfranchised groups still dealing with societally systemic problems oriented against them. That is not true of white heterosexual men.

No one even tries to defend these claims any more, they just try to get anyone who disagrees fired, expelled, or removed from social media platforms.

For example, the entire context for this discussion is the sever under representation of men on college campuses. So how can you say systemic issues never negatively impact men?

Also, it is very rare that those days ever identify specific systemic issues, with empirical evidence demonstrating them, with specific policy proposals to address them, with opportunity for debating whether those policies will actually work or have unintended negative consequences. It's pretty much exclusively moral posturing.

Every day is Rich People's Day!

Many men are feminists, are LGBTQ, care about the environment, or are minorities...

> Many men are feminists, are LGBTQ, […] or are minorities...

How can ‘many men’ be minorities ?

.... by being members of minority groups?

> Many men are feminists, are LGBTQ, […] or are minorities...

Doesn’t he/she mean by “many” that it’s a big portion? Why would minorities keep being minorities when they are common ?

If I have 67 green M&Ms and 33 red M&Ms, red is both in the minority and common.

There are a great many different minority groups. It's common for someone to be in one or more. That doesn't stop them from being a minority.

ah, ok. My bad. I though by 'many' the commenter meant that most of people were minorities, which does not make much sense to me

They can be of a non-white racial makeup?

Edit: according to downvotes, men of color are apparently not minorities. TIL.

I have walked around many college campus's. Having days for minorities doesn't mean white men are the root of all evil, just like black lives matter doesn't mean that white lives don't.

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