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In reply to the discussion: "Let's work to end racial discrimination" is a better approach than "whites are so privileged". [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)You must be glad that you have the privilege of telling us how we may discuss the issue so as to not bother you. Nobody cares how we want to discuss it, but that's not important, since we are just the victims of hundreds of years of American racism. I mean, what the hell could we possibly know about it, that you don't?
We are used to being told to shut up, sit down, and not get too uppity. That's basically what you are doing except this uppity part, I think.
When people stop using race as a cudgel to beat down the black population in this country, white privilege may just disappear, but as long as I can get pulled over for an intermittent turn signal by three cop cars and a K-9 unit with guns drawn, just because of my color, Ill use the term whenever I please. If if bothers you, so what? It bothers me that I can't walk around nordstroms without 20 different people, in sucession, asking me if they can help me. Every 30 seconds. One after another. Until I just leave.
I think you'll survive hearing/reading the term white privilege much better than I actually survive living in a white bred world and navigating through all the racism.