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My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male
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RE: My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male
Quote:When I say "X works like Y" I don't mean sometimes "X works like Z" can't be a valid proposition, but the general rule isn't invalidated by exceptions.

It is because of the way your statements are formed, you don't say things like

"In mainstream porn, often asian women are submissive."
You say things like.
"In porn asian women are always submissive."

The latter is invalidated quite easily because of how general the terms you use are and by the massive amounts of porn out there with dominant asian women in.

The same goes if you say "In the area I live in, most of the time I'm quite sure I'm not identified by my race, I'm just a standard person identified by my personality."
Then I couldn't argue with you, I'd just assume you're telling the truth.

BUT when you say "Right here are the privileges I got from being white. I'm not identified by my race, I'm just seen as the standard person, whereas other races are seen as the exception."
Such a generalized statement immediately makes me puzzled and I feel the need to question such a statement. I'd want to ask, well how do you know you're never identified by groups of black people as being a white guy? Do you never go to areas where you're the minority race for being white and are more likely to be identified as being white rather than just seen as a standard person?
If these are privileges you get JUST for these things which you didn't choose then it doesn't work because it ceases to be a privilege once you enter an area where white people are no longer in the majority and you're identified as being "That white guy." Or worse.


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.





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RE: My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male - by paulpablo - January 2, 2015 at 11:11 pm

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