(July 17, 2016 at 8:48 am)Cato Wrote: The big problem is with perspective. A white person won't register the term privilege, because the itemization of what is considered privileged is 'normal'.
This incorrectly assumes that white people all receive the privileges mentioned in this thread and therefore consider those privileges to be normal.
For example not being in a minority, not being racially abused, not being killed/beaten by police, having an economic advantage, living in a white majority country, not being racially stereotyped.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.