As I said in IRC, you don't get to equality by making people feel guilty about who they are in society (in fact I believe that just turns the table around and shifts the inequality onto them).
I don't check my privilege at the door, because I don't believe I should have any privilege based on how I was born. The anti-racist sees a black man, a white man, and a chinese man. I see three men, race completely irrelevant.
This is how I was brought up; how the anti-racists at the time wanted me to think, but now when I do think this way, they punish me. They want me to feel guilty for something I haven't done. How can we ever move forward as a society if we have a movement that seems to want to continually remind us that not all people are equal? All people *are* equal, and as soon as people realize this, society will change. It won't change whilst favouritism is given to specific races, and whilst the majority race is made to feel guilty for the way they were born.
I don't check my privilege at the door, because I don't believe I should have any privilege based on how I was born. The anti-racist sees a black man, a white man, and a chinese man. I see three men, race completely irrelevant.
This is how I was brought up; how the anti-racists at the time wanted me to think, but now when I do think this way, they punish me. They want me to feel guilty for something I haven't done. How can we ever move forward as a society if we have a movement that seems to want to continually remind us that not all people are equal? All people *are* equal, and as soon as people realize this, society will change. It won't change whilst favouritism is given to specific races, and whilst the majority race is made to feel guilty for the way they were born.
