I don't know if anyone has seen this yet, but Google fired a black women and people are now accusing the company of being sexist. One article the former employee wrote even accuses Google of dehumanizing her as an "angry black woman".
While I agree that this is an issue faced by black women, why is it that we basically ignore the stereotype about black men being angry or even animalistic? Surely this contributes to the problem of police brutality and a whole range of other "racial" issues faced by black men (many of which are actually gender issues amplified by the fact that we see black people as being more "masculine" than white people).
I'm not saying that Timnit Gebru, the employee that Google fired, doesn't deserve to have a spotlight right now. Or that we shouldn't have a conversation about the angry black women stereotype. And in fact we are having this conversation, pretty much all the time it seems like. But I have never seen anyone try to have a discussion in society about the angry black male stereotype.
We take extra care to address any issue at all that affects women, but we can't seem to bring ourselves to address anything that affects men. In my opinion, that silence and lack of acknowledgement is itself sexist against men and is an example of a form of systematic discrimination in society.
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It's chalked up to racism and nothing else.
Meanwhile most of the hatred and racism non white males have historically faced has been instigated by sexism and out-group misandry toward other groups of males.
See lynching of black males for supposed rape allegations and demonization of Asian males as rapists during World War 2 as just a few examples.
Drumming up hatred against another group of men as abusers of women has always been a tactic used to justify discrimination, mistreatment, hostility and suspicion against groups of men.
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