Fun fact:

By saying “Hating white people won’t end racism”, you are acknowledging that racism exists but hating white people is somehow worse and that racism is a lesser issue despite one clearly being far more serious than the other gee I wonder which that is. (No no, go ahead and keep changing “Black Lives Matter” to “All Lives Matter” as if you feel left out by a movement based on the extremely racist and unfair treatment of an entire group of people— a treatment that you, as a white person, are not subjected to. Actually, don’t do that. I want you to instead, whenever you have that thought, put your tongue in between your teeth and bite down really, really hard)

By saying “skinny shaming won’t end fat shaming” you’re acknowledging that fat shaming exists and that one type of shaming is worse than the other

By saying “Hating men won’t end sexism” you’re acknowledging that sexism exists but that hating men is somehow worse than sexism toward women as if the reaction to mistreatment, objectification, and discrimination worldwide and throughout history is not justified

By saying “heterophobia won’t end homophobia” you’re acknowledging that homophobia exists but that hating straight people is somehow worse than the way straight people treat people of marginalized sexualities

By saying “hating [cis] people won’t end transphobia” (stop capitalizing the whole word, dammit) you are acknowledging that transphobia exists and that hating cis people is somehow worse than the widespread hatred and mistreatment of trans people world-troiding-wide like holy shit you are not being murdered for being cis sit down. Your identity is not treated like the continual butt of a joke throughout the media, sit down.

By saying “Hate won’t end hate” you’re literally acknowledging the fact that there is hate to be hateful toward in the first place and you’re saying your hate is more legitimate than the hate directed toward you and that’s probably the most ironic and disturbing thought I have ever heard.

You are literally saying “You’re hating me for hating you and instead of actually doing something to address that problem I’d rather dismiss it because hate should only go one way and that’s from me, not to me”.

And that’s pathetic.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to today’s episode of “Name that falacy”, today’s fallacy is the Strawman, and there is no better way to learn about that than by looking at this post.

Now, the strawman is the method of missrepresenting someones point in order to make it easier to attack. Now, an example of that in an argument would be someone saying “I don’t agree with the democrats” and the opponent arguing with “So you support every single thing the republicans do? YOU HATE WOMEN”

Notice how Person A never said anything about the republican party, but Person B decided to use that as their point of attack, thus effectively strawmanning Person A’s blanket statement. 

Notice something similar in this post. Notice how the original image says that simply “hate will not stop hate”, the person replying to the post instead insisted that “hate will not stop hate” actually means “so you think your oppression is worse than a marginalized group?”

Now, if I was to straw-man their post myself, I would simply say: “Look back in history, and notice that many genocides were caused by an opressed group rising up and reacting violently out of hatred for the majority. That was how the rwandan genocide happened. And because you think hate is OK against the majority, you support genocide.”

And that was today’s lesson in basic fallacies. Remember kids. Strawmanning is extremely common, and very easy to call out when you see it. Pay attention, and you too can learn how to actually argue.

I think you forget what website you’re talking to. Tumblr is full of entitled brats who can’t argue to save their lives, put feels over facts, and have zero regard for differing opinions or human life so you might just be wasting your breath here.

Still, you worded it better than I ever could.

Ladies and gentlemen and all inbetween, this is the basic message that many peacemakers in history have spread. 

This makes me believe that people trying to so vehemently defend their ability to hate without judgement…leads me to believe that they don’t want equality or justice, they just want revenge.

Hating men does not end sexism, it just creates more sexism.

I am not straight, I would not hate my straight allies until they gave me a reason too.

I do not lash out at people who have done no wrong, in the desire for revenge for my own misfortunes.

And neither should you, because it helps nobody. All it does is breed more hate.

Im really glad I held out until the end because I gave on people about half way through the second commenter