(February 16, 2017 at 3:38 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I'm wondering why the OP has any skin in the game.
Good question. I'm a straight white male, so why should I care? Well, I have a new roommate who is a sociology grad student, so he talks a lot about privilege and oppression, and I at least want to know where I stand. He is a Hispanic male. It does bother me a little bit that his whole ideology is based on the belief that white males are society's master oppressors, and I sometimes wonder why he's even nice to me at all given that his worldview points to me, the white male, as his oppressor and the source of all evil in society.
I met three of his sociology friends - a black female and two Hispanic females. I would have been quite happy to ignore their race and I had hoped that we could all be friends, but they kept going on and on about gender, race, and privilege, and it was annoying and uncomfortable to the point where I don't want to pursue friendships with people who are so, well.....racist against white people and sexists against men, and who can't see anything about a person other than their race and gender.
Also, I'm seeing an increasing number of facebook posts about privilege and oppression, and I want to know where I stand.
