Southerners filibustered the CRA of ‘64. In between Roosevelt and Nixon, the parties were less divided than the regions were. Both Democrats and Republicans in the conservative South were against civil rights, and both Democrats and Republicans in the liberal north were pro-Civil Rights. What really solidified the party switch was the 1964 election, in which Republican Barry Goldwater ran on vetoing the Civil Rights Act, though the switch started in 1932, it ended with ‘64 and ‘68.
The Deep South has consistently voted red ever since Barry Goldwater, because the Republican Party adopted the “Southern Strategy” of appealing to racists. Don’t take it from me, google “Lee Atwater Southern Strategy Tape” and listen to Ronald Reagan’s top campaign strategist tell you himself.
see this is why we can’t give laymen access to academic terminology, because for some reason you hear “toxic masculinity” and think people are saying ALL masculinity is toxic, not that they’re talking about specific toxic behaviors encouraged by traditional ideas of masculinity. There is also positive masculinity, those two aren’t mutually exclusive things.
I mean yeah there’s dipshits with a flawed perception of toxic masculinity on the other side of the bad reading of the term who use it to bash all men too, but I’m a man and I just laugh at both of those people for not knowing what the word means. Like, an example of toxic masculinity is the whole “boys don’t cry” thing, not when the dude you like doesn’t like you back like these tiktok girlies use it
The amount of shit I’ve heard about how I suck for being born a white man is crazy. And it’s all from democrats, so it pushes me to the right. I’m pretty moderate but I can easily see how people like me would be pushed to the far right. Obviously there are people who have it harder than me, I’m not arguing that, but people gravitate towards groups that support them.
See but I don’t think the right wing actually supports young men being better men, I think they 100% prey on the grievances of young men who feel slighted by society, and there are people who say stupid shit like that, I think you can be intersectionally feminist without resorting to man-hatred. I love being a dude, dudes rock, I like doing dude shit, that doesn’t mean there’s not some downsides to the traditional archetype of masculinity.
They definitely prey on grievances but they also have no gripe with men actually acting like men, and when faced with the choice between that and a group that wants you to support them while actively saying you are the worst type of person - people are obviously going to pick the side that lets them be them
I mean I got no issue with men acting like men, I got an issue with men acting in ways that make life worse for themselves and others around them. That’s why I think we gotta do better at preaching the gentle strength that is accepting the good parts of masculinity and acknowledging the bad, instead of what the right seems to have been encouraging for the last few years, which is to just embrace the destructive power that comes with performing masculinity in a toxic way.
Like I’m a dude who believes in male privilege within society because I’ve both seen it in real time and studied it, and when I can tell that I’m being taken more seriously than a woman peer by someone in authority, like a professor, simply by virtue of being a masculine dude it sucks and feels unearned, but that’s not your fault, you didn’t build society that way, you shouldn’t feel guilty or ashamed of it, but you should call it when you see it.