RE: My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male
January 15, 2015 at 9:30 pm
(January 15, 2015 at 9:18 pm)Blackout Wrote: This is actually an interesting point, but I'd like if you could explain better why it is more interesting.
Additionally, I don't want anyone else to be born white, I want everyone to have give or take equal opportunities of social success and acceptance. In fact, some physical diversity makes the world interesting.
When you envision a white suburban neighborhood is there anything interesting going on? Maybe privately, but there is no music playing in the streets, there aren't people playing sports openly, everything is just so sanitized. Black and hispanic (and white rural) neighborhoods are so much more lively. People look down on these people as 'under-privileged' but I would imagine that if given a choice, they'd much rather live the way that they do than move into an expensive upper middle class house in the suburbs. Unfortunately that's what social success means to so many people. Being comfortable. Living in a nice neighborhood. I've lived in the suburbs, lived in Mexico, lived in rural Kentucky, lived in the Ghetto and by far the suburbs was the worst. There is just no culture. When people think Americans have no culture it's because the American dream, picket fence and all, is a culturaless boring one that involves working all the time and not actually enjoying your life. So maybe not everyone wants to be 'privileged.'