Is tolerance intolerant?

[bennyboy]

-and again with the white grievance.  That you can't distinguish the therapy from the cancer is a you problem. That's it, that's all...there's really nothing else to this.  You're wrong, and determined to remain so.  Affirmative action doesn't exist to hold the white man down..and it doesn't hold the white man down.

You keep saying this, in argument to who, exactly? The straw man you keep putting up for me?

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.............but that's your privilege showing, again.

My mom grew up on a native reserve (I'm 1/8 Penobscot or maybe 1/4 depending on who you ask) when she was small, and then lived in a farming community with my grandmother. I was epileptic, and my medicine made me so stoned that I never really had a real friend until I was about 8. I was passed around from grandparent to uncle to grandparent when i wasn't with her, and went a fair number of days with only one meal (usually Ichiban noodles) when I was with her. I spent (as I've mentioned before) a couple years on the street full-time, and on-and-off it for a few more. I'll spare you the list of things that happened to me during that time, but I can assure you that it wasn't an advantageous situation for a young person.

But yep, I have a noticeable melanin deficiency. Tell me all about my privilege, asshole.