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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]TheKentuckian
(25,020 posts)then you're left pissing into the wind while slapping yourself on the back.
Isn't the point to educate white folks? Same with males or any other privileged set. The rest of us are subjected so the impact in minority communities is preaching to the choir no matter how dead on accurate.
I don't understand the endgame here. How is the ball advanced if you don't care if the folks who benefit don't get the message? I also wonder who's term this is and why the investment is there in willfully being inaccessible.
If you can't wrap your head around someone who feels they are getting the shit end of the stick, quite plausibly legitimately is going to rankle at being called privileged then I tend to have to think you might not have made the most basic consideration.
I even have to consider the possibility that the entire aim is just to make somebody squirm or something with no actual expectations of changing the paradigm even in an evolutionary pace.
Is this going to keep me from being fucked with or at least out of handcuffs while I get "checked out" by the police or make me stop feeling like I have to be better than amazing to tread water and incredible to get ahead or make that waitress not assume I'm going to stiff her on the tip or in any way meaningfully address the real life bullshit or is this a cudgel working as a part time badge of honor for a few folks that think they really "get it", mostly comfortable to upper class and seemingly mostly white folks that won't improve life for anyone?
Is this all really just the Turd Way acceptable substitute for and distraction from a dialog about class?
It almost seems the privilege push is a response.