RE: My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male
January 2, 2015 at 9:29 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2015 at 9:30 pm by paulpablo.)
Quote:2 - For being white:
- I'm assumed to be the standard person because of my skin colour, and other people are seen as exceptions and determined or identified by their skin colour, while I'm just assumed to be a person and I am identified by my personality
Only true if you never leave the confines of a white majority neighborhood, if you go to a black or hispanic neighborhood, chances are at least some people will identify you as "That white guy". Maybe if it's a tough area you might even get picked on as an easy target for crime too.
I live in a mainly pakistani area in England and I've never been called "That standard guy", I've been called that white guy, white trash, white bastard, made fun of for being white.
I don't have a chip on my shoulder about it, I think racist people make themselves look like idiots by being racist and it's only a small minority of people that act like this.
I can only guess that it's because of where you live that gives you these view points.
Like I said I'm from England and white, my town used to be much worse, we would have areas where you would definitely be identified for you race and most likely chased out of that area if you were white and in a pakistani area. White people have been killed, even old men beaten up with lumps the size of golf balls on their head.
Now you say in the intro to the thread you kind of do a preemptive strike against my argument, you say that you know people are going to say "hey white people have racism against them too", and you go onto say that it isn't a competition about who has suffered from the most racism.
Well I'm not saying it's a competition, I'm not saying I've been oppressed.
I'm just trying to suggest to you that there's places probably, relatively not so far from where you live where you will be identified as the white guy, there's probably some places that aren't that far from where you live where people will go as far as thinking "What's that white guy doing here? Let's rob this guy".
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.
