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Asante
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Maybe the last remaining white people can be put in a petting zoo and encouraged to mate, like with pandas.
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Enlil
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Re: Admitting your white privilige [Re: MightyWhite] 1
#26877354 - 08/12/20 06:52 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I have privilege because I've earned it, privilege doesn't come without responsibility.
Ah, yes.... The white man's burden.
Yes, having privilege can sometimes be a burden. It has nothing to do with skin color, don't be a biggot Enlil, it's not a good look for you
Some privilege is based on skin color. Some is not. Acknowledging that doesn't make one a bigot
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Kizzle
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Re: Admitting your white privilige [Re: Rapjack]
#26877471 - 08/12/20 08:15 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Kizzle said: Which is exactly what I said in the second part. It's about how some people assume white people are treated based on their race and it's no different than jewish privilege or asian privilege or any other kind harmful stereotyping. Don't pretend people don't see what it really is just because you choose not to. I could talk about black criminality and justify it with a bunch of statistics and fill the rest in with assumption and it'd be the same thing. Ask someone to admit their black criminality and pretend that's going to be a step towards solving inequality. It's BS to pretend you know how society has treated an individual.
I've certainly experienced assimilated privilege. I speak the same dialect as the people around me, like Barack Obama when he's talking to white people. The more easily you can understand someone the easier it is to empathize with them.
I think you're misunderstanding what white privilege is, Kizzle. It's not a "harmful stereotyping", nor is it based on wealth (that's a different kind of privilege). Privilege is the things that a person never has to think or worry about.
Some examples: Am I talking white enough to not be seen as "other"? Should I change my name to help me get jobs? Is this police officer going to hurt me?
On top of that we've passed laws in the US specifically to hold back certain racial groups. From the Anti-Chinese Act to Segragation and more subtle but very damaging things like redlining (not a law anymore but banks still do it), the 10 to 1 crack / cocaine sentencing, or even the prohibition of cannabis and it's rebranding to "marijuana" (to mess with Mexicans).
The privilege comes from not having your government and larger society actively work against you because of what color your skin is.
You being white does not make you one of the oppressors, merely a beneficiary of said privilege.
Hopefully this helps you understand the concept more clearly.
But you don't know what I have or have not benefited from. You're just making assumptions. My being white helping me get a job or not get beaten by the police is only a benefit in a situation where it's actually true. No one has to worry about anything, what you're talking about there the privilege of believing something. All that matters is if that belief turns out to be justified and sometimes it may be but to pretend it always is wrong and destroys the notion that anything can change.
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