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My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male
RE: My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male
Quote:I think the idea that privileged people are always unaware of their privilege is wrong. The fact is "white guilt" is a well-known term in our society precisely because many of us honkies understand that we have it easier, and behave in a manner whereby we bend over backwards to demonstrate our good will. And if we don't do so, we will get called racist -- that's one of our little privileges, y'know? "He's white, he's racist" -- if I had a dime for the many times I've had that played out on me, I could go down to part-time and write my Great American Novel.
I don't support white guilt because I don't promote it or engage in actions that allow for discrimination of non-white people. I also dislike the racist card, but it's not about that - I'm not saying all social justice advocates propose it correctly.
Quote:I also think that assuming a person is privileged based on their skin color is likely to get you in hot water, because you don't know what kind of upbringing they've had, don't know the difficulties they've had to cope with, and are assuming that they have benefited from the one thing you can easily see -- skin color -- while you cannot see all the myriad bad shit that can happen to a person no matter what color they are.
No, but it's possible to objectively measure the quality of life of a certain group of people and observe social standards and reactions, making a judgement about the probability of the unknown average white compared to the person of colour having certain benefits. That's where I'm going to, I'm not pointing fingers to specific people or individuals I know, though I've personally witnessed differences in treatment of people because of factors I mentioned in the OP
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

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RE: My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male - by Dystopia - January 13, 2015 at 9:21 pm

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