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Thursday 21 May 2015

As a white man, I'm surprised more women aren't tweeting the hashtag #KillAllWhiteMen

Personally I don't see why Bahar Mustafa should lose her job over it – it's ironic, funny and thought-provoking

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Men – be honest. Have you ever found yourself walking home at night, and been stopped in the street by a woman masturbating at you? Or has a woman ever followed you down the street, while shouting that she wants to “shag” you? Likewise, white people: has someone ever followed you around a shop suspiciously? Have the police ever stopped and searched you for no reason? Has someone shouted a racial slur at you, or treated you as somehow inferior to them because of your race?
If you have, then I’m sure you’ll be letting me know. But my guess is that for most of you, the answer is: no, of course you haven’t. Which is why, as a white man, I don’t really mind when I saw Bahar Mustafa, Goldsmiths’ Diversity Officer, tweet “#KillAllWhiteMen”.
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It’s not the first time Mustafa has erred on the radical side. In April she organised an event with the caveat “if you’re a man and/or white PLEASE DON’T COME”. Following an outcry, she then said that it’s impossible for non-white people or women to be racist or sexist.
As you’d imagine, this has all led to a lot of controversy. A Change.org petition to get Mustafa sacked has already gained almost 17,000 signatures. And without a trace of irony, some have responded by sending her death threats.
I may not be getting an invite to one of Mustafa’s next non-binary, BME women-only events – but that doesn’t mean I’m going to sign the petition. First of all, when David Cameron is hosting white men only events like the one below, then how can anyone complain if someone wants to try doing the reverse? (Also, if you read her original Facebook post, she wasn’t saying that “lads” or “allies” were barred from all events, just this one.)
A tweet by Jeremy Heywood showing one of David Cameron's very own exclusionary meetings A tweet by Jeremy Heywood showing one of David Cameron's very own exclusionary meetings  
And I’m not fearing for my life either. Perhaps most importantly, Mustafa’s #KillAllMen tweet was obviously tongue-in-cheek (kind of like this lovely embroidery of the word “Misandry”). As she's said herself, it was just one of the “in-jokes and ways that many people in the queer feminist community express ourselves.”
And she's right. Playing up to the assumptions many men have made about feminists – that they’re all man-hating she-witches armed with specially designed knives that are shaped to the exact curvature of a ball sack –  is actually quite funny. No-one actually thinks that she was actually calling for a male genocide, do they?
Although this isn't to try and discount the rhetorical point the hashtag makes. Do any white men actually feel threatened by it? For #KillAllMen to actually be as scary as some people are making out, there would have to be some sort of precedent. You know, like a history of violence towards white men, led by non-white women. When when you try to imagine if someone had tweeted #KillAllNonWhitePeople, or #KillAllWomen, it's completely different. Or less hypothetically, just look at the promoted tweet that emerged yesterday, calling on trans people to kill themselves – it's terrifying. And these hashtags have been trending long before Twitter existed, although they looked more like mindsets than "#"s.
"Of course it's not ok to actually kill anyone, let alone tweet about it," Dr. Linda Chavers, who lectures in African-American studies, told me. "But for some reason nuance goes out the door when a non-white person dares to demonstrate intelligence and play with language. It's crazy the level of vitriol that people of colour face for emoting anything besides graceful quiet graceful sorrow.”
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Even when you put aside the fact that #KillAllWhiteMen is essentially an ironic meme, it still doesn’t matter. As a white man, I’m lucky enough to be in a position where it has literally never crossed my mind that a woman may one day abuse, assault or kill me because of my gender. Yet according to Women’s Aid, an average of two women a week are killed by a current or former male partner in the UK. And according to the Office for National Statistics, approximately 85,000 women are raped on average in England and Wales every year.
Being white, I’m also in a position where it's unlikely a Police officer will end up killing me after they've taken me into custody. For some reason, I have a better chance of being employed. And if, by chance, I was to get into a biker gang brawl, riot, or go on a racist shooting spree, it’s much less likely that the media will dissect my whiteness and its sociological significance, or call me a terrorist or "thug". And as we all know, I could go on.
So what’s actually more surprising that non-white women still trust men, and that there aren’t more hashtag wielding, misandrists about. Because “not all men” may hate women, but statistically speaking a lot of them see to. As Louis CK says: “How do women still go out with guys when you consider the fact there is no greater threat to women than men? Globally and historically we’re the number one cause of injury and mayhem to women, we’re the worst thing that ever happens to them!”
If you’re a white man and you’ve started to feel excluded, or anxious that someone who isn’t white or male may get preferential treatment over you, then all you’re doing is experiencing the same feeling everyone else has had for centuries. So please, if someone tweets something against you like this, just let it go.
As someone once put it on Twitter - “the most radical, the absolute, most revolutionary political act a white person can do is shut the fuck up”. So, with all the requisite self-awareness, I’ll be quiet now. White men – will you join me?

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Ebst
Ebst 14 minutes ago
I go to bed relaxed tonight, relaxed because I now know that no matter what I do in the future, no matter who I become...I will never be such a big tool, or lack as much honesty and integrity or loath anyone including myself as Max Benwell. You utter deluded, disconnected and dumb muppet....
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MalleusStultorum
MalleusStultorum 44 minutes ago
The millennials are so broken.

I went through the 70s and 80s being called every racial epiphet under the sun but by the 90s it felt equality was far better than it was now.

Safe spaces, triggers, privilege, self hating whites and all the nonsense that comes with identity politics is the new hobby of the millenials and its horribly divisive, with the principle of attacking the person instead of systems and institutions breeding some really vile individuals, as much as its bred a whole new generation of bigots to counter the angry social justice tribe.

We're past peak equality and are heading backwards.
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hynzerelli
hynzerelli 47 minutes ago
Does she consider Turks caucasian?? So we have a self loathing hipster gay marxist jew apologist who's full of white guilt who thinks it's so cool that some turkish harpy lesbian thinks white men should be killed. Looks like the black BallGarglin maggot needs to put a plastic bag over his head & this broad needs a to be GangRaped by the minorities she loves so much.

Sorry PER CAPITA we know who the biggest rapists are. I'm sure if u remove all the m00slimes, indians & pakis from the caucasian equation the amount of white rapists are minimal.
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zipit
zipit 47 minutes ago
I'm sick of these white, weak, middle class pounces who try to speak for the rest of us and laugh racism off as it is some sort of educational, thought provoking exercise (when white males are on the receiving end). talk about a castrated male, totally weak and vomit like! Is it anyone wonder these first, second and third generation immigrants (nothing more) come to this country and think they can make statements like that with a view to taking over the establishment moving forward, drip, drip, creep! where as if i, a white indigenous Brit were to say something like"kill all the smelly, dirty, yellow skins", then this comment would probably be deleted and i would probably find myself being arrested. Message to Bahar Mustafa, and ilk, don't abuse our hospitality, your biggest mistake would be to assume our kindness is a weakness. we aren't all like this sack-less, weak little white, male clown, something you lot will discover if you continue with this BS rhetoric! After all, you ought to remember, we were spanking the biggest military might in Europe just over 50 years ago while your ancestors were living in mud huts, and wandering around in sandals, so hows that for a bit of home truth - label me racist, i don't give a ____. I'm proud of my culture, I'm proud to be white and i take offence to people who say otherwise, especially when their own cultures an ancestral home lands have an atrocious record at the way they treat women. If you so concerned about finding a safe space maybe you should find you ancestral home land, that way you wont be in a minority group any more you Mutt.
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Mark Forrester
Mark Forrester 48 minutes ago
All this article tells me is that Max Benwell has no self respect.
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dnmurphy
dnmurphy 52 minutes ago
"So, with all the requisite self-awareness, I’ll be quiet now. White men – will you join me? "

No, you are a complete dickhead. BIgotry is bigotry and we wont end it by encouraging it. Al you are arguing is multiple wrongs make a right.
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Thetrashheap
Thetrashheap 55 minutes ago
I'm white. I was stopped and searched 5 times in one day. I used to look regularly into bushes and see soldiers pointing machine guns at me. When I was born 97% of the civil service in belfast was a faith group that wasn't mine. Landlords could have 7 votes while most people in my group couldn't because they didn't own a home. My mother in law dodged bullets on bloody sunday while 13 campaigning for voting rights for all and and end to discrimination. My grandfather was killed by CS gas when he was meant to have a year left to live from lung cancer and my brother had a gun stuck in his mouth by loyalist paramilitaries and was questioned on his faith which he successfully lied about.

Apparently because I white male I privileged and not know it.

You know what the difference between people who face discrimination and these social justice warriors is.? People who are really victims don't want to be while these fools aren't but do.

That lady is a bigot.
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Rum Tum
Rum Tum 1 hours ago
'Graceful quiet sorrow' is preferable to the language of hatred and exclusion, Dr Chavers. I cannot see how the words 'kill all white men' can be construed as 'playing with language' or be said to demonstrate intelligence. Bahar's behaviour has provoked vitriol not because she is a person of colour, but because thankfully many people have become highly intolerant of bigotry in all its forms
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Molier
Molier 1 hours ago
Social Justice Warrior Rule #1: It's OK when I do it.
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Molier
Molier 1 hours ago
"As an ethnic minority I can't be racist"

Says the Turk. Clearly she's never heard of the Armenian genocide.
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Maida Comment
Maida Comment 1 hours ago
We are told that all Black men are not muggers and rapists

We are told that all Muslims are not terrorists

We are told that all Romanians are not pickpockets

Now we are told the ALL white men should be killed??????

Dont you just love hypocrisy
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2plus2equals4
2plus2equals4 1 hours ago
So in you eyes would it be okay to say #killallpakistanimuslims in light of the rotherham scandel. I thought not. You sir are a complete K**b
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Junk_eb
Junk_eb 1 hours ago
So if I read this.. just because it hasn't happened to YOU yet then it's a non-issue that you cannot understand? Distance makes the heart grow fonder sort of deal? You can see her points when her points aren't stuck into your life just yet but should your workplace employ a "diversity officer" whose role was do segregate based on race, colour, or religion it might be a different story. As for your "all white old men" meeting the term "secretary" in that place would mean "department head" as in "secretary for defence" so it's not surprising to see a bunch of older white guys in that role as it takes a long time to work up the ladder to such a position and the generational gap hasn't reached that level yet. Give it a few years and we'll see if that photo look the same.
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Craftyeyes
Craftyeyes 2 hours ago
Twitter hashtag idea for black men to start. #KillAllWhiteWomen It's not racist, racism is power + privilege, white women are privileged compared to black men.
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Owen Reuben Hilton
Owen Reuben Hilton 2 hours ago
What a crawler.
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julia.london
julia.london 2 hours ago
A university doesnt need a diversity officer. In fact,we dont need diversity officers anywhere. This is the kind of non-job that does nothing for the country or the economy.
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MonkeyBot 5000
MonkeyBot 5000 3 hours ago
"Likewise, white people: has someone ever followed you around a shop suspiciously? Have the police ever stopped and searched you for no reason?"

Yes. Because a rich white guy decided that I was bound to be up to no good and needed a bit of policing.
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ripleynu
ripleynu 3 hours ago
I think she would be great as Raheem Sterling's agent. They'd be colour co-ordinated.
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Laverick
Laverick 3 hours ago
Racism is okay now? She is white herself! What defines a white man? A Caucasian man from Armenia? A Celtic man from Scotland?

This article is siding with intolerance. You go on to say your skin colour means you will be targeted less by a shooter, despite living in a country with strict gun laws that in gunpolicy.org'st recent data gave you a 1% chance of 100'000 people to be killed by a gunman.

When Lee Rigby was walking down the road in woolwich he wasn't expecting to be beheaded for his skin colour and nationality.

You cite a comedic report of riots in a different country on a different continent? As if this in anyway equates to Britain. Show me some racial bias in reporting of the 2011 August riots. Though since you specifically linked the Baltimore riots I doubt you haven't linked UK riots for a reason. I think you'll find the UK media has no issue with associating whiteness with thuggery on our streets, when you search the word 'chav' into google.co.uk they pictures are all of white men.

Finally when you say you have more chance of getting a job, I sincerely hope any employer looks into your writing history and doesn't hire you on the fact you're a racist. Change the words 'white men' to Jew's and you could post this on Stormfront.

Very embarrassing of the Indy to publish something like this to it's website.
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Mylestone
Mylestone 4 hours ago
How does a "hashtag" make a point and what's a meme? The world must be passing me by.

Trevor Philips seems to have got the point that this sort of thing does not help the cause and maybe this lady will do so also.
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Andrew Thomas
Andrew Thomas 4 hours ago
She's still not going to sleep with you.
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Brutus
Brutus 4 hours ago
So how would you feel about a white guy posting #KillAllBlackWomen?

Mr Benwell - you are a complete hypocrite and a pathetic excuse of a man.
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adamcrossphoto
adamcrossphoto 58 minutes ago
wow you're missing the point
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hynzerelli
hynzerelli 43 minutes ago
Reach up do u feel it Zippy?? the points at the top of your head.
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Nicholas Stix
Nicholas Stix 4 hours ago
"ironic, funny and thought-provoking"

It's none of those things. It's just murderously racist and sexist.

Nicholas Stix, Uncensored
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Nicholas Stix
Nicholas Stix 4 hours ago
"Has someone shouted a racial slur at you, or treated you as somehow inferior to them because of your race?"

Countless times.

Nicholas Stix, Uncensored
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matthew_wilkes
matthew_wilkes 4 hours ago
If she wants all white men dead, why the hell is she living in England? Put her on a plane to Somalia.
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adamcrossphoto
adamcrossphoto 58 minutes ago
she doesn't want all white men dead, did you even read the article?
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matthew_wilkes
matthew_wilkes 4 hours ago
If I was a black person, I would be very embarrassed at all this. In every country in the World, the black man is shown as a victim. It's not just in countries where they are a minority - even in countries where they are a majority - they are still seen as the victim!
Look at South Africa - only 5% white population but still there is affirmative action.
Extremism should be stamped out - there is no place for racial hatred in modern society - "Bahar Mustafa" should be sacked - and the nonsense post scrapped. We don't need "diversity officers" - and if we did, we certainly wouldn't want them to be vicious twisted extremists... No honest hard working tax payer would agree with her being publicly funded - and the sad irony is the majority of people she is representing live off state handouts.
They should be bloody grateful to live in a free country, not constantly moaning and protesting.
If she want's to shout about injustice lets send her back to "sand land" and see how she gets on there.
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.....?...... 4 hours ago
Congratulations on proving her point....
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Landon
Landon 3 hours ago
Which was?

If white men have one problem, far from being oppressors and monsters, it's that we're too nice for our own good. Nobody should allow themselves and their country to be disrespected in this manner. It's partly our fault that we've created this generation of entitled spoiled brats. They say the disgusting things they say because they know we'll tolerate it.
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Egoeimi
Egoeimi 4 hours ago
Apart from the economy, this is why so many voted Conservative.
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Landon
Landon 4 hours ago
You're not a white man, as you know perfectly well. Don't ever speak for the rest of us, and don't ask us to join you in this snivelling self-hatred, because it's not going to happen. Some of us have self-respect.

Bigotry is always wrong and it can never be excused. Calling racism and bigotry "satire" or "just a joke" is not a good enough excuse when whites do it, and it's not a good enough excuse when minorities do it either.

"If you’re a white man and you’ve started to feel excluded, or anxious that someone who isn’t white or male may get preferential treatment over you, then all you’re doing is experiencing the same feeling everyone else has had for centuries."

Finally, we get to the truth of the matter. The politically correct left isn't really about fairness and equality, it's about some twisted fantasy of vengeance and payback. Why I should be punished for something that had nothing to do with me, just because of my skin colour, is something only a true racist could try justify.
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Steve Hill
Steve Hill 4 hours ago
Sack the bigot.
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PaulD
PaulD 4 hours ago
Poor excuse for a journalist. I'm going off this paper thanks to people like you. I'm white and I've been followed round a shop, I've been the 'victim' of racism and sexism. It can't be right to allow some people to do things and others not to. This woman is clearly on a personal campaign and should take the consequences.
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acc
acc 4 hours ago
Have you ever found yourself walking home at night, and been stopped in the street by a woman masturbating at you?
YES!

Or has a woman ever followed you down the street, while shouting that she wants to “shag” you?
YES!

Likewise, white people: has someone ever followed you around a shop suspiciously?
YES!

Have the police ever stopped and searched you for no reason?
YES!

Has someone shouted a racial slur at you, or treated you as somehow inferior to them because of your race?
YES!

....& now I'm to be killed as well?
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andrew james
andrew james 5 hours ago
I have never behaved that way and I don't see why I should be included in that group simply for the colour of my skin. If it turned out that most rapists have green eyes should every one else with green eyes share their guilt? This 'diversity officer' should lose her job because she's completely lost the plot.
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Mardy
Mardy 5 hours ago
'As a white man' - apparently you have no say - trot on.
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adamcrossphoto
adamcrossphoto 56 minutes ago
when it comes to issues regarding BME peoples no you don't. white people thinking they have a right to stick their oar in is half the problem here.
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Landon
Landon 31 minutes ago
White people sticking their oar in their own country.....who do they think they are? These whites should just go back to where they came from.
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Cole1978
Cole1978 5 hours ago
KILLALLWHITELIBERALPRICKS!
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Junis Nalik
Junis Nalik 5 hours ago
As a left-leaning person of Pakistani descent, I would like to agree with but I can't. Why? The phrase which includes the words "killall" has to be very bad regardless of whom it refers to. Some white guys are brilliant and that is the reason why the Internet, computers, electric lighting, wireless communication etc. exist.
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Cole1978
Cole1978 5 hours ago
How about we kill all Pakistani men due to the Rotherham grooming scandal???
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Trab
Trab 4 hours ago
or how about we kill all of (mostly white) westminister cos... y'know
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xckute
xckute 5 hours ago
Junis - don't kill whitemen because some of them are very adept at electronic engineering? Is this a joke?
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Fixpir
Fixpir 5 hours ago
Yeah, right, of course, one injustice can correct another injustice. So, the best to fight racism is to use another racism.

Hint to our friends in the US : forget about the problem with the police. Just shoot out unarmed white teenagers and unarmed white men running. And, maybe, just to be sure, some asians and latinos, too.

Then Justice will be well served. No need to take any other action. [/irony]
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dnmurphy
dnmurphy 46 minutes ago
There have been cases of young white men being killed by the police both in the US and UK.
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Darius1295
Darius1295 5 hours ago
Why can't Max Benwell understand that not all white males are masochists like him?
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Craftyeyes
Craftyeyes 6 hours ago
There's a name for you bud. It's called cuck.
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tjmac
tjmac 6 hours ago
so it's like all those 'tongue in cheek'rape threats on twitter that the police and radfems keep banging on about then?

Spoiled white boy doesn't have a clue about the threats to men or women.
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adamcrossphoto
adamcrossphoto 55 minutes ago
threats to men, hah, that's a good one.
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.....?......
.....?...... 6 hours ago
I understand what the diversity officer in question, was initially trying to do, create a safe place where a certain population can meet, a population that may feel intimidated or uneasy under normal circumstances. I understand that a special meeting where it is possible to talk openly and freely about things without fear of judgement, which a lot of us, tend to do. The initial idea, I do not have a problem with. However, the young lady went about it all wrong, instead of suggesting openly that white males need not attend, perhaps she should have invited them to come along and then enlighten them as to the perils and discrimination endured by this group. By asking them not to come and in effect excluding white males she has achieved exactly what she is complaining about. Let's be honest had she made it an open invite and explained what the purpose of the meeting was, how many white males would have turned up? None most probably and those that did would have come along to show some solidarity.

Now on to the white trash comment, very foolish and unprofessional, especially on a her job email account, for that she should be reprimanded, as a diversity officer, someone who is supposed to promote inclusion, to make such a comment is childish and unbecoming.

Do I feel threatened by her killallmales hashtag, not really, however again, it is simply a childish and to be quite frank uneducated statement.
TO her assertion that she cannot be sexist or racist as she is an ethnic minority woman, well that is just ridiculous and a very outdated way of thinking and to be quite frank, ignorant.

Should she lose her job? Perhaps diversity officer is not suited to her.

And lastly, making a video where you say "we are militant" and denying the existence of reverse racism or sexism again, saying women cannot be sexist or ethnic minority cannot be racist, I think we can attest that this is not true. It was a bit silly, she should really have taken some advice before posting such a stupid response to the accusations.

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father ted
father ted 6 hours ago
as a white man i would not hesitate to give this feminist one
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nornironrock
nornironrock 6 hours ago
Interesting how the author has disappeared. Clearly unwilling, unable, or both, to defend his position...

I just have one question for you though if you are reading these comments.

Have you ever been outside? The world is full of people being abused, killed, and otherwise maltreated. And a lot of them are white. Or male. Or (whisper it) both.

How dare you try and defend this excuse for a woman. As one poster suggested earlier, if she is indeed a Turk, I would suggest in this year of all years (100 after the Armenian genocide) she may have a bit of thinking to do about her position.
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bernadette
bernadette 6 hours ago
Absolutely agree mad overreaction. she said sorry, but they have gone for here with the entire law books from from the beginning of time.
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John B Ellis
John B Ellis 6 hours ago
I didn't and don't see why this young woman should lose her student union job for saying what she said. If people can't run the risk of going over the top in their student years when they've got the chance to experiment with ideas and test them out, it's a pity; for most there'll never be a better time and for many there'll be little enough opportunity to do it in later life as their lives get more complex.

But treating this student union effusion as a substantial topic for mature debate in a serious journal is utterly absurd, and this writer - assuming that his tongue isn't massively inside his cheek, which I suppose is just possible! - seems to be as immature as his subject.
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xckute
xckute 6 hours ago
John - Generations of kids are told that racism is unacceptable, the Premier league has spent masses of money and time trying to stamp racism out of football, charities up and down the country are working to eradicate racism. Everyone knows racist comments are wrong so to explain her comments away as "experimentation" is ill-informed and exceptionally naive. This is a 27 year old woman of the world with responsibilities and a platform - not some naughty six year old pushing boundaries.
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Landon
Landon 4 hours ago
A woman in her position, with her attitudes, can't be trusted to treat all her students fairly.

She needs to go.
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xckute
xckute 6 hours ago
Hmmm, no to the first (but there again, I don't know many women who've experienced this either), yes to the second (but that's not unusual in UK city centers at 2 in the morning), yes to the third (possibly because of the way I was dressed) and yes to the racial slur, twice abroad, once here in the UK (albeit in Urdu). Maybe you just need to get out more? But what's your point; because none of this has happened to you #killallwhitemen is just a bit of harmless irony? According to this logic, those chelsea fans who abused the black guy on the Paris metro recently were just being ironic too? After all they described what they did as "banter" if I remember rightly. Or is that white men are incapable of being ironic in the same way that members of a minority are incapable of being racist?

Your article is just wrong. Wrong in a liberal trendy way, but wrong all the same - unless of course YOU are being ironic ( I really hope so for for all our sakes).
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Socrates60
Socrates60 6 hours ago
What a load of self-flagellating, subservient nonsense! Speak for yourself, not the average White man. Are you aware this is the language of Robert Mugabe and his entourage? You are clearly just a 'stupid boy' who has no business expressing such perversions in print.
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BELCHER
BELCHER 6 hours ago
BIG ...... GIRLS ...... BLOUSE.
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Mardy
Mardy 6 hours ago
Says young white middle-class man speaking from an ironic perspective.
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HexJam
HexJam 6 hours ago
"Do any white men actually feel threatened by it? For #KillAllMen to actually be as scary as some people are making out, there would have to be some sort of precedent. You know, like a history of violence towards white men..."

http://economicfreedomfighters.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Honeymoon-is-over-for-white-people-in-South-Africa-EFF-Poster.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b_OMFBbt8GQ/Ulv4C74uJFI/AAAAAAAABcc/AK7Fplpt1XQ/s1600/eff1.jpg

Well, that literally took like 2 seconds to find...
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adamcrossphoto
adamcrossphoto 54 minutes ago
congrats on missing the point.
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SpectateSwamp
SpectateSwamp 7 hours ago
I'm not surprised. When all you hear and see on it media is always negative about men. Two of the greatest people I ever knew were my Dad and Grandfather.
Example:
Here in Canada they have started an investigation into "missing and murdered Native Women" There are probably double that number of Native Men missing.
I'm all for protecting our Girls but it is pathetic how we are brainwashed against White Men and all Men.
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bansis
bansis 7 hours ago
"I’ll be quiet now"

You should have started the article with that, start as you mean to go on, being a cuck for some tumblr feminists.
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The Demon
The Demon 7 hours ago
This women is a functioning idiot and a bigot, end of really, no matter her prevarications.

This guys is also a functioning idiot writing an article that so trivialises such a (IMO), some pretty stupid and hienous statements, like Killallwhitemen and that if you are not white you cant be racist?

The idiocy beggars belief!
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adamcrossphoto
adamcrossphoto 53 minutes ago
if you don't understand what racism is, then you should probably pipe down. And no, racism is not simply the dictionary definition of the word.
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Landon
Landon 29 minutes ago
Sorry, you don't get to make up your own definition for words. Racism is what the dictionary says it is. The end. The only reason you want to change it is so the real bigots can weasel out of being called racist. It's transparent and nobody's going to play along with it.
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bansis
bansis 7 hours ago
I've never had a woman masturbate at me on the street, but I have been sexually assaulted several times by women on the street. I've been stopped and searched plenty of times for no reason and I've had several women tell me they want me to shag them, one even told me she wanted me to rape her...A White male. Hey I'm not going to make my self a victim out of this, I quite like the attention...
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adamcrossphoto
adamcrossphoto 52 minutes ago
you like women asking you to rape them? ... fascinating.
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Thales
Thales 7 hours ago
Yes; I was walking with my girlfriend in Bradford and was abused by idiots in a car telling me to leave her alone because she is "sister" and I am white.
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adamcrossphoto
adamcrossphoto 49 minutes ago
worried for a reason. a lot of white men look for relationships with people of colour because they see them as exotic objects. There are industries built upon it. But y'know, if you think you're the victim here because some girls shouted at you then you have a pretty screwed up perspective
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Landon
Landon 26 minutes ago
Oh of course....the community that is known for grooming is worried for a reason. The nerve. Men of color see white women the same way, and are even worse for it....but somehow you're the victim here.
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timbazo
timbazo 7 hours ago
Plenty of Jews probably thought that Hitler's hashtag #KillAllJews was obviously tongue-in-cheek, just one of the in-jokes that many people in the fascist community made to express themselves. And weren't they right. Playing up to the assumptions many people had made about fascists – that they were all Jew-hating thugs intent on mass murder. No-one actually thought that they meant what they said about the final solution, did they?
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HappyCheese
HappyCheese 7 hours ago
Have you ever found yourself walking home at night, and been stopped in the street by a woman masturbating at you? No, but I have had an aggressive street prostitute come up and grab my junk through my jeans in Berlin while walking home. Does that count?

Or has a woman ever followed you down the street, while shouting that she wants to “shag” you? Yes - also demands for cigarettes, booze etc.

Likewise, white people: has someone ever followed you around a shop suspiciously? Yes

Have the police ever stopped and searched you for no reason? Yes

Has someone shouted a racial slur at you, or treated you as somehow inferior to them because of your race? Yes - also I have had stones hurled at me, been told I'm not going into paradise etc.

Oooh, ask me more!

Yours truly,

White Middle Class Male
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surgitation
surgitation 7 hours ago
Is this really happening
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Scipiiouse
Scipiiouse 7 hours ago
It's kind of funny that when a socially conservative person like Katie Hopkins came up with these "jokes", The Indy will absolutely slaughter her for being a backwards hatemonger.

Meanwhile, if someone uses the exact same rhetoric but it's against a hegemony, you act as though it's a sharp and witty way to make people think.

Just to clarify, I absolutely hate Katie Hopkins, but I also absolutely hate Bahar Mustafa too. If you let these idiots think that they can't be racist because they're not white, you need to have your head examined.
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Intouchdm
Intouchdm 7 hours ago
as a gay white man. yes. yes I have out side, on the TV, during the day or night. I've seen discrimination towards me from groups of thugs to family's.
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Hotdangdiggidy
Hotdangdiggidy 7 hours ago
So let me see if I understand, if I'm white & male I'm not allowed to have an opinion even if it supports attempts to redress problems associated with entrenched racism and prejudice.
However white male hacks such as Ben are not only allowed to have opinions but can have their opinions published in a national newspaper because it supports the idea that white males are not allowed to have opinions. My head is starting to hurt.
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John
John 8 hours ago
I'm really disappointed in the independent, what's really ironic is the name of this paper given that it's supper if racism and sexism. the whole point is that the author and the diversity officer at goldsmiths have confused institutionalised discrimination with racism. yes you can be racist as anyone can.
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abbienational
abbienational 8 hours ago
She'll almost certainly have had a clause in her contract about "being an ambassador" for her workplace, which does extend to Diversity Officer's twitter feed (from which I believe the offending tweet was sent). A radical statement like that would probably see anyone called up for review - and she was already attracting negative press. Not saying it's fair per se, just saying she's likely in breach of contract, and that's why her job is under threat.

Also interested at what point this is legally classed as 'inciting racial hatred', I'm not sure the relevant legislation accounts for institutional power structures at present.
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John
John 8 hours ago
aren't like 40% of domestic abuse victims men?
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RichSandersen
RichSandersen 8 hours ago
"When when you try to imagine if someone had tweeted #KillAllNonWhitePeople, or #KillAllWomen, it's completely different."

Except it isn't, as I have already demonstrated with my counter examples:

"As a Muslim, I'm surprised more apostates aren't tweeting the hashtag #KillAllMuslims."

"As an Armenian, I'm surprised more apostates aren't tweeting the hastag #KillAllTurkishMuslims"

Both those are perfectly legit, eh Max! Of course, I could use many other 'parameters' in those examples, but I think the ones involving Muslims will hit the Social Justice Warriors and Hipster Racists the hardest, simply because they employ a "hierarchy of racism" points system, and tend to be very sensitive and over-privileging of Muslims.

Sadly, quite a few hipster racists and social justice warriors would have NO PROBLEM at all with a #KillAllJews hashtag. I have had a lot of experience with SJW's and their sorbid ilk.
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chiefranter
chiefranter 8 hours ago
What about the Palestinians Ben?
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Schrodinger's Cat
Schrodinger's Cat 8 hours ago
Although I've spent my whole adult life hating racism, prejudice and discrimination, I simply cannot support this. There's clearly more to it than simply an "ironic meme". It reeks of misandry and racism towards white people. I appreciate that women and ethnic minorities have often had a raw deal at the hands of white men, but two wrongs do not make a right.
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danielclegg
danielclegg 8 hours ago
You see you answering from the uk a predominately white British country and you are British. Now Ben go for a walk around parts of the middle east or South Africa and then answer the same questions again. I'll bet you a pound or two your answers will be markedly different!
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Grumpy_P_Sloth
Grumpy_P_Sloth 8 hours ago
"When when you try to imagine if someone had tweeted #KillAllNonWhitePeople, or #KillAllWomen, it's completely different."

I see, so something that would constitute a hate crime if it was aimed at virtually every other demographic suddenly becomes different & fun when it's angled at white men?

Absolutely ridiculous.
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StoneColdLeafDrinker
StoneColdLeafDrinker 8 hours ago
If you are such a threat to women, why haven't you killed yourself? Lead by example.
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independant
independant 8 hours ago
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of her nose,
Her nose,
Her nose,
With a ring at the end of her nose.
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Schrodinger's Cat
Schrodinger's Cat 8 hours ago
"Men – be honest. Have you ever found yourself walking home at night, and been stopped in the street by a woman masturbating at you? Or has a woman ever followed you down the street, while shouting that she wants to “shag” you?"

No. Unfortunately those things have never happened to me. They often happen to me in my favourite dreams and I can imagine that they'll happen to me if I go to heaven, but at the moment, I'm not that lucky.
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abbienational
abbienational 8 hours ago
Right. Now imagine that woman was gross, drunk, overbearing, and unwashed. Believe me, if it was Ryan Gosling shining his helmet at me on the bus, I wouldn't be complaining so much.
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independant
independant 8 hours ago
I'm not surprised because its not white men but Muslims killing everyone else as apostates, ie anyone who does not believe in their nonsense, whose killing people for not believing what they believe? Not Christians, or Hindus or Buddhists, Sikhs, Jain's whatever only you Muslims are killing people and you know what your violence will not prevail, you Muslims through your killing and hatred have united the whole world against you. Religion of Peace? rubbish religion of hate and killing so you are, hated by all people of the world.
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FredBaxtor123
FredBaxtor123 8 hours ago
Now now, people need to relax. As she's a Turkish Cypriot, I'm sure she just meant #killAllArmenians.
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MisterFatty
MisterFatty 8 hours ago
No, I won't shut the eff up. What we need right now is for everybody, I mean everybody, male, female, all ethnicities together, to jump up and down and make a fuss.
There are huge overriding issues at stake which affect the wellbeing of us all. Banks, corporations and their lackeys in Westminster are leading us in an ever-escalating race to the bottom. Until this has been confronted, the young person with the tasteless hashtag can wait.
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RichSandersen
RichSandersen 8 hours ago
It won;t take Max long to look at all the pushback, the ridicule, all the people pointing and laughing at him, the criticism that points out his errors, and then say: "oh looky, all the people criticising me and innocent hipster racist Bahar Mustafa are online trolls and abusers!!! HARASSMENT"

Except ridicule and pointing out how people are wrong IS NOT harassment.

That is the standard tactic, folks. Look out for it, and call it out when you see it used. There are already some defeated and ridiculed defenders of Bahar who are pushing the "angry white male harassment brigade" are "harassing" her. They will ignore the fact that the criticism and ridicule is broad-based, fact-based, and from People of Colour and women. Typical "hispter racists" ignore People of Colour and women when they are not "on message".
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superman
superman 8 hours ago
You just want pussy, you pathetic little brat.
Do you really think women will screw you just because they agree with your political correctness?
Ha ha...
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RichSandersen
RichSandersen 8 hours ago
Is this sentiment also applicable, Max?

As a Muslim, I'm surprised more apostates aren't tweeting the hashtag #KillAllMuslims.
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independant
independant 8 hours ago
As a non Muslim I'm not surprised because its not not anyone else but Muslims killing everyone else as apostates, ie anyone who does not believe in their nonsense, whose killing people for not believing what they believe? Not Christians, or Hindus or Buddhists, Sikhs, Jain's whatever only you Muslims are killing people and you know what your violence will not prevail, you Muslims through your killing and hatred have united the whole world against you. Religion of Peace? rubbish religion of hate and killing so you are, hated by all people of the world.
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Hainesman13
Hainesman13 8 hours ago
Have you ever found yourself walking home at night, and been stopped in the street by a woman masturbating at you? Or has a woman ever followed you down the street, while shouting that she wants to “shag” you? Likewise, white people: has someone ever followed you around a shop suspiciously? Have the police ever stopped and searched you for no reason? Has someone shouted a racial slur at you, or treated you as somehow inferior to them because of your race?

1) No
2) Something very similar
3) Yes
4) Yes
5) Yes

?
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independant
independant 8 hours ago
Have you ever found yourself walking home at night, and been stopped in the street by a blackman masturbating at you? Or has a blackman ever followed you down the street, while shouting that he wants to “shag” you? Likewise, white people: has someone ever followed you around a shop suspiciously? Have the police ever stopped and searched you for no reason? Has someone shouted a racial slur at you, called you racist or treated you as somehow inferior to them because you are a white man? Sure every day but I have my pride, I am not going to admit to been a victim.
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dnmurphy
dnmurphy 37 minutes ago
I have had some abuse bit that much, but I have never been abusive to others either.
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GregJWild
GregJWild 8 hours ago
So much MRA angst in these comments. Cry some more. You guys are hilarious.
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MrScott92
MrScott92 8 hours ago
Oh, so speaking out against bigotry makes you an MRA?
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RichSandersen
RichSandersen 8 hours ago
He's a Social Justice Warrior, and he's crying rage tears as another bout of ridicule and facts disrupts his worldview.
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GregJWild
GregJWild 8 hours ago
In this case, pretty much. I suspect if you sad down and chatted to most, if not all people RTing #killallwhitemen, the retweeter would have a lively, rational discussion about the way bigotry against majorities is very different dynamic. Try to have the same conversation with someone advocating #killallblackpeople, they are probably unlikely to have anything like a rational discussion.

I am probably being judgmental. But as a white, middle-class male, I think I shall reserve that right in this case.
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Landon
Landon 4 hours ago
Nobody likes hypocrites such as Bahar Mustafa, especially when they're in positions of authority where their nasty attitudes could have very real world consequences.
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independant
independant 8 hours ago
As a white man, I'm surprised more women aren't tweeting the hashtag #KillAllWhiteMen. Kill all white men eh, well bring it on girly boy, you are biting off more than you can chew.
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AdamS
AdamS 8 hours ago
Hate is hate. How can you condone hatred towards one group by promoting towards another.

I am absolutely disgusted by this kind of bigotry. It doesn't matter who it is against it is wrong.

I live in a multicultural family. I'm white British, my wife is Indian and we have relations from all over the world from all different walks of life.

When I have children should I allow members of the family to abuse them for being white. Should they be brought up with this catholic like guilt for being half white?

The world is changing and people are becoming more diversified. Your comment here shows how sheltered you are:

"As a white man, I’m lucky enough to be in a position where it has literally never crossed my mind that a woman may one day abuse, assault or kill me because of my gender"

But I have been in a situation where women have instigated racist abuse towards white people and from that myself. They didn't do it for some anti cis-gender movement they did it because people are becoming racist.

There have been moments in places around the world I have nearly been in serious danger purely for being white.

Racism is wrong and I personally will fight it vehemently where ever I see it.
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independant
independant 8 hours ago
Racism is natural and normal, Look at the Indian caste system and tell me that is is any worse than so called white racism, how we react to it is what defines us as human beings.
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Telfennol
Telfennol 8 hours ago
It's absolutely right and fair to both ask and expect me, and other white people in general, to avoid comments and language that are racially offensive and provocative. However, it's not right to claim some sort of double standard applies and non-white people are allowed to make such remarks if they're "cool" or "ironic".

Oh, and the answer is yes, I've been on the wrong side of racism myself. A an Englishman who lived in Scotland for three years I was sometimes on the pointed end of abuse or derogatory remarks, mostly meant in fun, but not always.

Either it's wrong or it isn't, you can't have it both ways.
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Trab
Trab 8 hours ago
Way to churn out the tired out statistics as if they meant something. It doesn't matter who did what to whom. Race hate is race hate. Gender hate is gender hate. To assume you can't be racist if you aren't white is a ridiculously white-centric world view, that assumes wherever white people are, they are the dominant majority. Why do you think this? Because secretly deep down you believe that to be right, I suspect. Not just correct, but RIGHT.
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Trab
Trab 9 hours ago
I have been followed round a shop suspiciously. I was also a victim of intimate partner violence. White male. People are people, thats equality you dufus
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HiddenStorm
HiddenStorm 9 hours ago
Since you're such a fan of the Office of National Statistics, Max - despite not actually linking to it - I thought I'd check out the data on violent crime from 2013/2014 from there. Here's the link for your perusal:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/focus-on-violent-crime-and-sexual-offences--2013-14/rft-appendix-tables.xls

The results were enlightening.
-2.3% of men are victims of violent crime compared to 1.4% of women;
-2.0% White British and 3.8% White Irish are victims of violent crime compared to 0.5% Black Africans, 2.3% Black Caribbeans, 1.3% Indians and 1.1% Pakistanis.

...But please, tell me more about how white people and men are immune to violence!

The fact is, articles like this are all just biased dross. Very rarely does such sensationalist white-guilt claptrap hold up to actual scrutiny.

Also, nice job trying to defend Mustafa's racism and sexism. Tell me, if the word "men" had been replaced with the word "Jews" in her hashtag, would you still be calling it "obviously tongue-in-cheek"? Of course not, because then you'd quite rightly be hung from the rafters for it. Why should this be any different? Equality means equal treatment for all, and not making up stupid, tepid excuses to defend your bigotry.

She deserves to be fired, and so do you.
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kimg
kimg 9 hours ago
isn't it better just to say nothing sometimes, just cos everyone can voice their opinions doesn't always mean you are doing the right thing. Lets be honest, everyone just hates everyone now, its a national sport.
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Dionysus
Dionysus 9 hours ago
I'm fine with her using #KillAllWhiteMen so long as she's fine with receiving "death threats". It's all ironic, innit?
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DBF
DBF 9 hours ago
Oh yes, all white men are terrible and no woman or minority has ever done anything wrong ever.
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Dolly Smith
Dolly Smith 9 hours ago
Cue whiny white men wittering about 'genocide' & 'cultural marxism'. They're daft hipster feminists, get over it. What are you men taking 'offence' to silly twitter hashtags, 13 year olds? Why aren't you working or doing something grown up instead of sitting on your bed looking for things to feel oppressed by? The tragic, invisible middle aged white man & his poor hard done by life...I was going to donate to the Nepal appeal, think I'll start a 'gofundme' page to raise money for the 'endangered' white male instead. #lolwhitegenocide.
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WeakSauceOtto
WeakSauceOtto 9 hours ago
I'm a 29 year old white male and I answered yes to most of the questions in the opening paragraph. Where is my hashtag?
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sh00ter_d
sh00ter_d 9 hours ago
LOL This is far and away more accurate...

https://twitter.com/Benfclark/status/601384547163471872
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Dionysus
Dionysus 9 hours ago
Excellent!
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Junius
Junius 9 hours ago
'Or been followed down the street, while a woman shouts that she wants to “shag” you?'

Not for many years, sadly, although as an old white man who has recently posted in ironic fashion on Indy Voices and been accused of abusiveness I can only observe that irony has its hazards, although it no longer results in the ironical being banged up in Newgate Prison and clamped in the pillory, a fate which befell the horribly white Daniel Defoe.

Defoe's crime was to issue a pamphlet entitled The Shortest Way with Dissenters, so the exhortation to kill would appear to be fraught with peril, however tongue-in-cheek it is delivered.
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JOHNNYJERUSALEM
JOHNNYJERUSALEM 9 hours ago
Either stereotyping a whole race / sex is wrong or it's not. Which is it?

As a white man I don't find her hashtag offensive at all. However we all know what her response would have been if she was responding to #killAllBlackWomen. It's only fair she samples the same outrage she'd be expressing.

I'm sick of hypocrites like her and the writer of this article and their justifications for their hypocrisy.
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potrattler
potrattler 8 hours ago
Spot on; I am a white male and I really don't care what anybody calls me, as long as I am free to use offensive language and stereotype as well.
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David Rose
David Rose 9 hours ago
This woman is, in fact, white.

Moreover, isn't she a Turksh Cypriot: i.e. from what in other circumstances she might describe as an illegal colonialist settler state run by a regional imperialist power that has displaced the original population of Cyprus.

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OhThisBloodyPC
OhThisBloodyPC 9 hours ago
I'm impressed you got through a column without mentioning Hitler or quoting Pastor Niemoller.

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OhThisBloodyPC
OhThisBloodyPC 9 hours ago
Never mind the social issue, doesn't little Max look great on that pedestal he's made for himself?

Well done Max! Good boy! We're all mightily impressed. It can't have been easy for you.
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sh00ter_d
sh00ter_d 9 hours ago
MAX BENWELL needs to lose his job next. Maybe these SJW hipsters will stop the racism and sexism.
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Tim
Tim 9 hours ago
Absolute pernicious, illogical crap.

Shame on the Independent for publishing this drivel. Clearly you're going down the Guardian's click bait route to attracting traffic - i.e. find some moronic left winger, get them to write counter factual nonsense and await the clicks.
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chiefranter
chiefranter 9 hours ago
This article is drivel. I was going to write a thoughtful reply but on reflection, the journalism is so bad and the prejudices of the writer so cockeyed, I can't be bothered to say more than I have. This article is utter drivel. How did it get past the editor?
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MrScott92
MrScott92 9 hours ago
What is this racist, sexist filth? There is nothing wrong with being a white man and some nasty little feminist has no right to demonize you for it. A hash tag entitled #KillAllBlackMen would be swiftly denounced as hate speech so I see no reason why this hash tag should be treated any differently. It's not humourous or thought-provoking, it is simply hate speech and nothing more.

Shame on the author of this article for trying to justify this trash.
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