Category: Social questions
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The Invisible Hand: How Outsider Infiltrations Manipulate Demonstrations
Pro-Gaza demonstrations against Israel’s military action have intensified in many European countries. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is enormous, and hostilities in the region should cease as soon as possible. However, protesters have unilaterally condemned Israel’s military action and are demonstrating for the rights of Gazans. The protesters never say anything about Hamas’ military action…
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The gap in attitudes between men and women – values are diverging
A study published this year in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology by Oskari Laitinen, a Finnish psychology researcher, found that attitudes towards critical social justice (wokeism) differ significantly between women and men. Women are more aware than the men, in this study mainly university students. In February 2024, The Financial Times published a study showing…
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“This was enough for me” – men’s values in change
In early 2024, the Financial Times published a study on the values of young people in different countries. According to the report, the values of men and women are increasingly divergent. In Western countries, especially since the 2010s, the difference in values has become large. E.g. In the US, Britain and Germany, young men increasingly…
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An employment is a toxic power relationship
In Finland, there have now been discussions about two media outlets related to social inequality. In another, a Finnish actress urged that people should just look to the other way in shoplifting situations, because she understands that the thief is stealing for his own need, and that any theft is due to the fault of…
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Intersectional feminism and the crisis of society
Intersectional feminism emerged in academia in the United States as a kind of amendment to traditional feminism. It extends the concepts of oppression and exploitation to other oppressed groups. It seeks to dismantle the social structures and gender divisions that oppress women. Intersectional feminism is essentially a Marxist ideology. It examines the oppression experienced by…
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Woke is more than we realize
There has been a lot of discussion in forums lately about the connection between wokeism or “woke” and left-wing social ideology. Woke means awareness of social injustices such as racial prejudice or discrimination. In the 2010s, it has increasingly used in a collective sense to mean sensitivity to social inequality, women’s inequality and discrimination against…
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Why didn’t I go to Pride?
In many cities, Pride parades were held in the summer. I no longer wanted to go there to march. Well, why not? One reason, at least, is that I feel that the Pride movement has become politicized. In Finland, it refused to cooperate with some parties. The reason was that some of their members of…
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Pride – pride?
Now, during Pride Month, it is necessary to stop and think about the rights of sexual minorities, or rather how they are talked about. In the Western cultures, it is now customary for feelings and ideas to be expressed openly. This is good, because just a few decades ago, non-normative sexuality began to be handled…
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International Boys´ Day – Who cares?
International Boys’ Day, May 16, celebrates all the positive elements that boys bring to their families and communities. It also highlights the issues and challenges that boys face as they develop (https://internationalboysday.org.au/about-us/). It’s amazing how little media interest there was in the day. I didn’t see any articles in newspapers or discussions in social media.…
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Young men are to blame for everything?
I have recently watched Jordan Peterson’s YouTube-posts (https://www.youtube.com/@JordanBPeterson) with great interest. They repeatedly bring up the problems of men, the oppression of men, especially now in America. Personally, I think that the same thing applies to all Western civilization today. The lines below are mainly direct quotes from his podcast conversations with various experts. Men…
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