![]() ![]() We all have to examine ourselves as oppressor as well as oppressed – because we are all both. However, that doesn’t make them immune to critique. They should have a say in the decisions that affect their lives, but they often don’t. They are ignored by a political class that couldn’t care less about them. Working-class ‘straight white men’ in Ireland don’t have it easy these days. It is only by acknowledging all these differences that we have any chance of imagining and building a better world that includes us all. It is an obligation on all of us to honestly look at our different positions within the structures of oppression and privilege under patriarchal racial capitalism. As well, some of us have had a multitude of opportunities in our lives while some of us have had to fight our way through. We live in a world where our advantages are tangled up with the things that disadvantage us – some of us are working class, some queer, some of us are poor, some of us come from minority ethnic groups or have disabilities or don’t enjoy the security of citizenship. These men – our friends, our fellow trade unionists, activists, writers, organisers, and artists – shared and commented on a reductive and damaging article written by Frankie Gaffney, which was published in the Irish Times. Last week, a good number of the left-wing men we work and organise with seriously disappointed us. “We are a group of activist women from a wide variety of backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. ![]()
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