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In this Brownstone Institute article, Thomas Harrington argues that government and institutional messaging increasingly demonizes men as a class while serving broader elite goals of social atomization, distrust, and population control.
- Harrington opens by arguing that democratic societies should not use state power to cast suspicion on entire groups based on immutable traits such as sex, race, or other birth characteristics.
- He objects to public transportation signs and campaigns that frame “male violence” in a way he believes paints all men as potential predators rather than targeting actual criminal behavior.
- The article does not deny that sexual harassment and violence exist, but argues that using public money to stigmatize nearly half the population is morally and politically dangerous.
- Harrington connects anti-male messaging to a larger cultural effort to discredit traditionally masculine traits such as courage, protective instincts, physical resistance, and the willingness to set hard limits.
- He argues that elites benefit from weakening men, families, and male-female trust because divided and suspicious populations are easier to control.
- The piece ties this dynamic to falling birth rates, suggesting that distrust between men and women has become another force discouraging marriage, family formation, and procreation.
- Harrington also links the issue to Covid-era public messaging, arguing that governments learned they could demonize disfavored groups without much public backlash.
- His broader warning is that when the state labels a birth-defined group as morally suspect, the stated purpose may be protection, but the real effect is often division, suspicion, and greater elite control.
Read the full story: https://brownstone.org/articles/the-demonization-of-men-and-everyone-else-too/
