RE: My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male
December 29, 2014 at 10:26 am
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2014 at 10:27 am by Dystopia.)
(December 29, 2014 at 1:10 am)CapnAwesome Wrote:Where did you get that idea? I'm not even considered a liberal by my country's standards, in fact I like capitalism. Perhaps because it's impossible to keep track of how many people of either group talks about privilege it's unreasonable to say that only the privileged group is the one talking about it... There are many liberal whites who don't care about privilege.(December 28, 2014 at 1:01 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Something else to keep in mind when going over privilege: that by itself is a sign of privilege. Specifically, at my last full-time job, I was one of only a handful of white people in a call center that usually had 50 or so people there. Most of my coworkers were black. I never heard they talking about oppression or privilege or any of that stuff. Sure, I talked with them, and I listened to the conversations many of them had amongst each other. So, if privilege is such an important thing, why is it never talked about by underpaid, black people? Shouldn't they be the ones most concerned about it? Or are the only ones who are able to worry about privilege actually some of the most privileged people on earth? A bunch of upper-middle-class, college educated, white girls, constantly chastising everyone else for having privilege; that's what you usually find in social justice circles. And it would be far easier to take their condemnation of privileged people more seriously if they were as willing to condemn themselves as harshly as they condemn others.
Privileged Liberal White People are the only ones who give half a rats ass about privilege.
There are many reasons why a group doesn't speak about privilege or lack of thereof, it's not because it doesn't exist.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you