2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: White progressive analysis of politics is fundamentally broken. [View all]dionysus
(26,467 posts)have few of any minorities, it's hard for them to grasp what white privilege is, and they will walk away feeling insulted or like they've been called racists. I don't know how you solve that, since racial injustice is very, very real in this country.
I guess that's why it's always been a difficult subject for people to talk about, escpecially for those who haven't seen it or experienced it for themselves.
Talk about white privilege to a white guy in an impoverished area, and there's no POC around for comparison, and the white guy is gonna ve insulted.. "how can *I* be privileged, i'm fuckin broke!".
Meanwhile, most minorities, if they were to see that reaction, would then rightly think "how the fuck can you NOT see white privilege, i see it all around me every day!"
It sucks.