RE: My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male
January 15, 2015 at 10:00 pm
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2015 at 10:05 pm by Regina.)
(January 15, 2015 at 9:55 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(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.
In England where I live I'd much rather live in a suburb than in a ghetto.
Slum areas are romanticized, and are supposed to have character but I live in a pretty bad area, Muslim pakistanis are in the majority so I suppose it's in the realm of being an English version of a ghetto.
In one way it is interesting to see kidnappings, burglars, heroin addicts, beatings and riots happening in front of you, on the other hand it's bad news dealing with sky high car insurance, being surrounded by very non available Muslim girls, being chased by stray pit bulls (admittedly an adrenaline rush but could have ended badly) and racial abuse sometimes.
There's actually a Romanian family in the area that just ask you for food, I think they live in a house but they don't speak English well except to say "Food please boss, give food."
The area I'm in isn't bad just because of the minority groups here, my friends live in places where mainly white people live which are worse, but I do have a bit of envy for people who live in peace, in a nice suburbian house, white picket fence, attractive non veiled females in the vicinity.
Some suburbs are sketchy though. Like I say, the area I grew up in wasn't that safe and was still very working class. It's also one of the most "white" areas in my city - 95+%. We still had issues with Pitbull dogs, muggings, racial tension wherever there were people from other races (mostly racism came from the white people though).
suburbs aren't totally safe or totally "middle class" either, I think this is a misconception. My area growing up wasn't totally safe, it was still very working class with some sketchy characters lurking around. Might as well take the inner-city and get the full package.
This might just be in the UK though, I can't speak for America.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
