RE: Blexit Campaign - Black Exit from the US Democratic Party
August 6, 2020 at 2:56 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2020 at 3:04 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
While I understand what I think you mean, we maintain our privileges, both for ourselves and for our children. It might not be entirely accurate to say that we don't choose them. They didn't fall out of the sky like the $100 of providence referenced. Similarly, they are not innate qualities of a person.
I bring these things up, because alot of the objections in discussions about privilege seem to be people arguing about other things, or calling privilege some other (less objectionable/less culpable) thing. It's not luck, it's not circumstance or a starting condition, and it has nothing to do with a persons qualities whatsoever. In US terms (because privilege is specific to culture), it's the broad advantage conferred by centuries of white supremacy...currently ongoing, to an imaginary white race - which people are rather arbitrarily assigned to or perceived to be a member of.
I bring these things up, because alot of the objections in discussions about privilege seem to be people arguing about other things, or calling privilege some other (less objectionable/less culpable) thing. It's not luck, it's not circumstance or a starting condition, and it has nothing to do with a persons qualities whatsoever. In US terms (because privilege is specific to culture), it's the broad advantage conferred by centuries of white supremacy...currently ongoing, to an imaginary white race - which people are rather arbitrarily assigned to or perceived to be a member of.
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