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Article here:  http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/02/27/3341411/bitcoin-privilege/


The words "white male", or "white men", is used in highly negative connotation, in such rapid succession, it's pretty easy to realize the agenda behind this woman's article.  The title of the article alludes to the fact that the writer has a negative viewpoint of Bitcoin, but once you start reading, the message isn't that Bitcoin is bad due to some fundamental error in coding or other aspect, Bitcoin is horrible because...white males are using it.

The writer then goes on to falsely claim that people who are most likely to be educated with "advanced knowledge of computer science, (and) wealth — are also markings of the young, white male".  The funny part of this claim is, Israel usually ranks highest, or second highest per capita in this category, right next to Japan and South Korea.  The people she attempts to demonize for having too much of an advantage making sickening amounts of money, instead of being "white males", are in reality, probably her own ethnic group, plus various Asian countries.

Let's not even get into the fact that she pretends like the majority of the world is white, when it's not, it's mostly Asian.  Let's also not get into the fact that more Asians use Bitcoin than white males in general if exchange data is anything to go on.  Where is the demonization of Asians then?  Are Asians evil because they use Bitcoin in overwhelming numbers?  The demonization of conservative life choices or economics is also seen in the article.  Countries with high Asian demographics also happen to be more conservative in nature than Caucasian ones.  I guess she conveniently forgot this fact too?

You have to ask yourself why an article was written solely to demonize white males in Bitcoin, in particular, without mentioning the word Asian once when it's probably an even larger demographic.  Or why an Agenda without regard to any facts seemed to precede the article.  Anyone with common sense can tell you, the writer believes it's okay to be openly racist and hostile against white males with no fear of reprisal, while if she did the same thing to any other ethnic group, she would be labeled a Klan member and removed from any job or position she holds.

The writer will probably tell you, it's not possible for her to be racist, because she's Jewish of course, while shouting slogans like, 'remember the 6 trillion!', to remind you of this fact.  If you happen to be Asian, or any other race, you should probably oppose people like this, because once she's made it to be illegal to be a white male, or even not liberal, she'll be coming after you next.  Therefore, I ask anyone reading this, to openly call for the firing, removal, or disbarring from any form of "academia", media, or other enterprise, Annie-Rose Strasser, for spreading racism and sexism under the guise of "Progress".

lol.

she looks like another man-hater:

rachel man-cow from msnbc



and i use the term "she" loosely.

She is a racist, misandrist, and ageist.

You guys are jerks. Have some empathy for this poor woman. If you were a fucking war pig and knew that no sane human being would ever want to sleep with you, you`d be kinda bitter too. :D

I don't think she's ugly, just normal looking.  She should be judged based on the content of her text alone, which is outrageous when you consider the fact this woman is preaching hatred of white males while being connected to a sitting US Congresswoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz

http://www.aim.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/debbie-wasserman-schultz-300x225.jpg

Although the right and left wing media are both crooked and one big, happy family putting on a fake show, I think this story has a large chance of being picked up by right wing media.

Asians and whoever the hell else is reading this, don't be lazy and think it doesn't matter because you aren't white.  After they make it illegal to be a white male and destroy that demographic, they're going to come after the Asians saying, oh your society is too conservative, we need to destroy it also, and Bitcoin needs to be illegal because not enough women are interested in technology or economics to acquire any.

Seriously, is she stying to troll us all?

https://i.imgur.com/oAvjxEQ.jpg

I shot Andy Warhol

Man, that is one ugly dude. 

Get Help soon.

This is the heart of her text:
"But the question stands as to why Bitcoin doesn’t reflect the ranks of the unbanked at all. Why isn’t the crypto-currency of the future taking hold among [these] communities...?"

The 'reflection' she is talking about, relies on statistics taken from here
http://simulacrum.cc/2014/02/01/bitcoin-community-survey-2014/

Statistically, that site says, as she reports, that (to quote her article) "the average user is a 32.1-year-old libertarian male."
We could question the legitimacy of this statistical portrait and so reject this depiction, but she has accepted it, after reinforcing it with some additional, more informal links.

She correctly notes that Bitcoin sees itself as an alternative to traditional banking. I'm sure we can agree on this.
She then goes on to discuss people and communities who are shut out of traditional banking. She notes that they are not typically 32.1-year-old libertarian males. So she asks why is there this gap between a new non-traditional banking system and a large community of people who really need a non-traditional banking system. I think this is an obvious and legitimate question.

Her answer to why involves several factors that one could accept or reject: the technological difficulty in using the system, the risks involved in the absence of government regulation, and deeply ingrained systemic biases against many members of the unbanked.

I think there is wide agreement on the first point. Bitcoin is currently difficult to use securely for many people. The second point is more controversial, but clearly there are many different points of view about the questions of risk vs. regulation. It is a topic currently under intense debate in the community. The third point is probably the most controversial and I won't speak for or against it here.

So someone asks "Why isn't Bitcoin reaching out to communities who in theory could benefit from what it offers?"

And the community responds here with: "She's Jewish," "She's a woman," "She's ugly."

nice one.

Hold on a sec... 5-6 people replied to this thread and your calling it the "community"?

nice one.

"the community here" meant the members of bitcointalk who have so far responded. It doesn't mean "the bitcoin community" or "the bitcointalk community"
It means the responses to date.

There had been a uniformity of response that failed to address the main question of her post and instead made ad hominem reactions.

Since this is an open forum, perhaps that ratio will change.

The unbanked and disenfranchised arent into Bitcoin because its still too early for them to be, its too risky for them, they are too vulnerable to test a new technology, even if they knew about it.

When Bitcoin becomes more popular and readily accessible, these people will likely be some of the biggest benefactors. The article makes some good points, but does so in a poor way which reflects bitterness and confusion about Bitcoin in general.

I could go back in time to any number of technologies, like the internet, cell phone and say "Hey! The early adopters are mostly of XYZ race/ethnicity/social class. Email is biased towards people who can afford a college education!"

Conclusion: "This technology does NOT look like a democratizing force for good! Email is only available if you are ALREADY in college, which is already a huge advantage!"

But Im pretty sure in 2014 it pretty clear that email has been a hugely uplifting, empowering force all people of the world, not just the academics and technologists who pioneered its early use.

Anyway, websites like that are desperate for clicks, so this article, despite its misplaced moralizing, is entirely successful for them.

I looked at the site, a leftist obama is great, entitlement culture type of site, and the article is race baiting left wing gibberish of course, maybe designed to try to poison further adoption of Bitcoin by broader 'social groups' ( if there are such things  in reality ) ...

BUT reading the comments below i saw the article roundly derided by a cross section of people, so it's likely safe to presume it's a fail on that front, even though they probably love the traffic...Bitcoins a hotclick right now...

I've seen this same article thousands of times in different contexts.
That's cultural marxism. While she is probably just a sheep it is an intentional destructive ideology that seeks to undermine normal productive high-functioning and successful power structures in the western world leaving it weak and easily manipulable and ultimately conquerable.

Definition of Cultural Marxism*:

Cultural Marxism: An offshoot of Marxism that gave birth to political correctness, multiculturalism and "anti-racism." Cultural Marxism maintains that all human behavior is a result of culture (not heredity / race) and thus malleable. While traditional (economic) Marxists focused on class identity in racially homogenous countries (with poor results during WWI), Cultural Marxists facilitated the racial organization of non-whites, while simultaneously asserting that "race does not exist" for white people and that whites must deny all racial loyalties. Cultural Marxists typically support race-based affirmative action, the proposition state (as opposed to a nation rooted in common ancestry), elevating non-Western religions above Western religions, globalization and free trade, speech codes and censorship, multiculturalism, diversity training, anti-Western education curricula, maladaptive sexual norms, the dispossession of white people, and mass Third World immigration into Western countries. Cultural Marxists have promoted idea that white people, instead of birthing white babies, should interracially marry or adopt non-white children. Samuel P. Huntington maintained that Cultural Marxism is an anti-white ideology.


Notable Cultural Marxists: Antonio Gramsci, Horkheimer and Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Franz Boas, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, and Others

Conlusion : BS, don't even read the article.

Hear, hear!

I doubt it is SHE.

when in doubt, quote from a blog and warn everyone away from reading for themselves.

I don't know where to begin: this white supremacist definition of 'cultural marxism' (even wikipedia's definition is a step up from this), the lumping in of Stephen Jay Gould as a 'cultural marxist' or your reference to an ideologue like Samuel Huntington as a source of solid info.

There are absolutely no doubts.
The wikipedia description is very vague , do not really explain what it is. The quote from the blog is perfectly correct.

With a head like that i would assume she is sexually frustrated.

I'm pretty sure that's a dude. He would fail any gender tests for a woman.

Chicks like this have existed since the "prosthetic-penis movement". Without "plastics",  they would have to calm their jets before getting some.

Its not crime to be misinformed, but you can't change the world to make it agree with your misinformed mind.

the blog quote is correct, sure: if you believe Fox News/tea party blather that brands anything it disagrees with a hidden communist plot.  

Do you even realize that nearly all of the 'cultural marxists' you name above and accuse of creating multiculturalism, globalization, etc. were dead (DEAD) for decades before those ideas or movements even existed? Do you realize that most of them never have even written a single sentence about white racial identity? I do. How? I've read them!

Put down the internet, turn off Fox, and try and read a book some time. You might like it.

Thank you to cdog for at least addressing one of the topics of the essay. And again "nice work" to the many more who just kept fantasising about her sex life.

Let's state this in a more productive way: How can we help people who could benefit from Bitcoin but aren't part of it to find a place for themselves here in the Bitcoin community?

After all, the influx of millions of new dollars has to come from somewhere if all the hodlers want to cash in on their $100,000 coins.

I would think that posting pictures of female commentators in order to disparage their looks and sex life isn't one of them.

And that definition of "cultural marxism" is just laughable. You guys really have to read some books.

Doesn't she realize Satoshi Nakamoto is Japanese?

No, that was not the "heart" of her text.  The "heart" of her text was using the word "white males" in negative connotation, in rapid succession, to frame them as evil force that must be stopped.  How would she feel if someone wrote the same article and replaced the word "white", with Jews, Asians, Blacks, or another demographic?  She would flip out and call you a Klan member.  If we use her own ideology to categorize her actions, then that's exactly what she would be, a Jewish Nazi or Klan member, aka cultural Marxist.  A person openly demonstrating hatred of another race or demographic.

As already pointed out, her claims of "white males" dominating Bitcoin and having an unfair advantage isn't even remotely close to the truth.  She completely ignored the bigger demographic, Asians, on purpose to try and demonize white males instead.  There was an obvious, clear goal in mind before the article was written.  What's wrong?  You're going to claim to me that only white people can be racist?  That it's not possible for her to be racist as well?  It's a free country, she can be as racist as she wants, I don't care.  Just don't come out with your garbage, double standards while preaching "progress" and "equality".

It's also wonderful how she pretends all white people are rich, and that no white people should be allowed to try and improve their lives using Bitcoin either.  Last time I checked, the real unemployment rate in America is 37%, and over 50 million Americans are on food stamps, most of which are white people.


I've got a better idea.  Let's state this in a more productive way.  Let's stop pretending like all white males are rich and live in mansions when the middle class doesn't exist anymore, and they're just as poor and broke as everyone else in America nowadays.  "We" don't need to be servants of other people when we have to fix our own lives first before we can sit around like you and talk about plans to save everyone else.  What is your net worth to be talking like this?  A million dollars?  10 million?  A billion?

ANNIE-ROSE STRASSER et al could get rid of white privilege at the drop of a hat if they really wanted to: Just find some stinking desert (to use a Firesign Theaterism) somewhere and set up a reservation for these privileged whites who don't think they're privileged at all -- who would rather go to a stinking desert with _nothing_* and risk dying of starvation and thirst than spend another microsecond in the society where they are privileged. You'd get rid of millions if not tens of millions of these privileged white males virtually over night. Problem solved.

*You would, of course, have DHS X-Ray them to make sure they hadn't swallowed any diamonds before they crossed into the stinking desert never to return to the land of white privilege.

Although her article is clearly a crock of shit, the posts about her appearance and sex life go a long way to giving the impression she is right.

Hm, I did not give any information about my political or religious preferences anywhere...

This thread makes me wish we could rep people on this site. 

Regarding her, or should I say his (BTC1 says there is a Y chromosome), Marxist views; I always find it funny that the white male is cause of all issues, and that the Marxist is never will to practice what they scream. 

I don't pretend to understand how someone can be so self loathing, but this "chick" has is nailed.

I agree.

r0ach is tellin' y'all right

Neither did I.

Also, how does one classify one other as not being religious?
By not believing in God, or their God for that matter?

How did she come to that conclusion?
We are talking about 61% here.

Of course a cultural-marxist jewish woman would hate bitcoin: It frees productive people from being forced to fund her way of life.

As someone of ethiopian extraction I find it offensive that I am being smeared as a white elitist

"the less advantaged desperately need a larger government role in the banking system to help them them overcome deep, systemic bias."

The only time I have ever experienced bias in a banking system was in Dubai, and that was because I wasn't an Emirati.

I could have been any colour and I would have been treated the same (except Emirati of course, not that that is a colour)

I'm not aware of any banks which have "No colored" signs.

What am I missing here?

Even my Somalian friend got a bank account to do UK mining deals in Somalia, one of the worlds most corrupt/terrorist states, from a UK bank.

I'm not aware of a deep systemic bias in the banking system, is anyone else?

I wonder how many Dogecoins she owns.

25 years ago she'd have been railing against the fact that the internet was mostly inhabited by white males.

lol

Even though it has been around for years Bitcoin and alt are still in early adopter phase.

Much like 32.1 yr old white males cornered the cell phone market in the 80's.  However unlike cell phones the prices of bitcoin will go up (ish) whereas cell phones went down.  The lower price is what spreads the idea or product to the masses.  The more prices of bit goes up the more alts will gain popularity(and hence value) because the barriers to entry are less.

This is why I think alt will the checking accounts and bit will be the savings.  (for a percentage because obviously if everyone put bit into storage then the demand/price would decrease )

Until a brick and mortar store like walmart offers preloaded debit cards of coins with instant verification it will be continue to be a niche market 1-2%...  anyone want to start that business with me let me know  ;D


If I'm wrong blast away.  I'm still learning and I'll gladly alter my opinion based on contrary facts.

I agree with the posts calling you guys out for focusing on his/her appearance. Please stop pointing out the fact that he/she is hideously ugly and focus on his/her advocacy for a dangerous ideology that has enslaved and killed millions for over a hundred years.

hear, hear!

The largest demographic of poor people in America is white people. And by white people I mean white according to the definition used in the 1800s and early 1900s which was English, not the definition today which is any European. Drive through Appalachia through WV, KY, AR to OK, and you will see some significant poverty primarily among populations that have been in the US for awhile. At the same time out here in the west coast we have tons of wealthy asian, indian and mexican communities because the US is open to all who want to educate and better themselves because the US is awesome that way.

But no, let's keep screaming about all the rich evil white people because no one else is capable. /sarc

I ain't even white.

And I find this bitch to be highly amusing.

Typical mouthy 'progressive' who thinks they have a political will when in fact, they just want to bitch and moan.

Way to discredit your self with the subject line.  WTF does it have anything to do with anything that she is Jewish?  After that any valid argument has a hard time holding water.

I found the title to have meaning because it it shows her massive hypocrisy in attacking specific groups of people based on superficial attributes regardless of which group is attacked. For example, If we're going to round up all the evil white males, why don't we next go after all the Jewish people. At least that was my interpretation on the OP's title.

You response also is an example of the close mindedness of thinkprogress and similar lefty sites. Here you decided to take offence with the OP's first point and simply use that sensitivity to state that all following points are automatically not valid despite what they are. That's a good example of how political correctness is really used to shutdown debate and discussion.

I smell a lesbo!   ;D

I think her father is Janet Reno. I am not joking.... see the resemblance...

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/archive/2001/10/39000_39413_janetreno.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg

Haha, well played.

She, like 95% of all reporters reporting on bitcoin are idiots reporting on stuff they know nothing about;
1. Her premise is that most Bitcoiners are white. This is false. According to Reddit, over 50% of the bitcoin traffic on the blockchain is coming from CHINA. Unless Chinese people are "white", she's an idiot. And that's inexcusable because she's not even cute. LOL. My SO says stupid stuff like "Bid coin is a nerd Ponzi scheme," but at least she's crazy hot.

2. Then she goes on to suggest that only young white males are smart enough to have advanced knowledge of computer science and wealth. News flash, one of the most powerful known  bitcoin mining rigs is in HONG KONG, CHINA. It is liquid cooled and occupies an entire facility. I'm pretty sure these guys are smart and wealthy but NOT WHITE.

3. "Despite being wronged by the system again and again, women... don't want a smaller government." Wow, she even admits that she's stupid but incorrectly projects her own stupidity on others. If someone keeps on beating me up, I'd run the heck away from him, instead of inviting him back!

4. Cites Mtgox debacle as reason why bitcoin is failing. Bitcoin's purpose is to be your own bank. If you've put your bitcoin in Mtgox then you're treating Mtgox as a bank. I'm sorry that was an expensive lesson for you. Don't put your bitcoins in a bank/exchange. YOU are your own bank with bitcoin. Human greed clouded judgement, so Mtgox is a failure of humans not Bitcoin.

Should I be offended?  I am a female "bitcoiner."  ;)

Bitcoins are Anti-Semitic and so are you, you vile holocaust denying Nazi apologist!

Yes, you should be offended by that article. Bitcoin is more than just men vs women, more than race, and more  than nationality. It is a truly international means of commerce that will bring the whole world closer together.

To suggest that somehow men only understand bitcoin enough to benefit from it is ludicrous.

White and asian females have dominated the cosmetics market for THOUSANDS of years. That's something to worry.

Females have manipulated men for thousands of years.  But I wouldn't worry about it. ;)