Political Memes

Scoping and context matter -- I'm not saying sexism doesn't exist, nor am I saying that the crimes committed weren't based on sexually predatory men exploiting vulnerable women. But the argument the image is making is just shit, and conflating different topics, botching the framing and diminishing the statements ability to persuade me as a reader/consumer.

Using your own response to highlight it: "slavery wasn't about race but economics because you had black slave owners".

You didn't properly frame that as American slavery, you're presuming the context is just known to your reader, and that they'll inherently agree with your point as you view it as politically correct -- you're being intentionally lazy with your word choice, but that makes the statement easily challenged/ignored. It's sorta like virtue signalling -- you don't need to "prove" something will benefit an individual, if you can convince them its for some nebulous greater good. To your lazily framed statement, one could ask: What about Rome? What about Korea, one of the areas with the longest history of slavery? How about the First Nation groups in the PNW, who prior to "colonization" ruining their culture, were known as prolific slave traders with about 25% of their band being slaves from other FN bands? "Slavery" itself isn't about black and white, nor is it specifically about race. America's racism, is America's racism -- slavery or no, as many non-whites have found out in the years since slavery was "abolished" in that country.

The image is leaning on virtue signalling, saying "sexism is bad"/"women are disadvantaged" to present a disjointed argument about gender inequality. The examples they provide are shit: in the two 'things' they put forward, having photos leaked online and being named in the Epstein files, if you look for cases with the two genders, there are differences but it's not a solid ground to stake a position. There are both men and women in the Epstein files, as conspirators/contributors/victimizers, who are all getting off nearly scott free (gotta quantify that a bit, as it's mostly US people getting off totally scott free, the US people in power specifically). And if you look at photo leaks/mis-sent photos, there's lots of examples of men getting shafted, and there are examples of women turning huge profits off it/gaining careers from it.

Like if the base argument is "men got off scott free in epstein, women lose careers in photo leaks". Then pointing out women got off scott free in the epstein files, and that men lose careers over photo leaks, you could accurately rebut that argument simply by saying "women got off scott free in epstein, men lose careers in photo leaks -- they are equally avoiding accountability in the files, and both losing careers to photo leaks, so where's the inequality?".

The image isn't arguing that "the epstein files was a giant multi-nation syndicate setup to exploit vulnerable women for the benefit of sexually predatory rich men, while also gaining blackmail material on those men". It's arguing "Men have no accountability from Epstein stuff, while women lose careers for a photo leak, therefore sexual inequality!". It's a shitty argument, even if you agree that sexual inequality exists.