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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You misunderstand. I just can't abide moralizing.
By the way, your variant of the above is, "Burn down the patriarchy! Fairness and empathy for all! But don't you dare touch the neoliberal economic policies that keep the status quo from which I am benefiting!"
We're all full of shit.
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Privileged- a black woman friend posted on FB about how she saw a 70 y.o. Black woman freeze out a white woman in their health club. She then recounted her discussion after the white woman left. A white woman commented on FB taking issue with the older black woman's actions. Then FB blew up with lots of people yelling at the white woman, because, you know, FB.
But the part I liked was this one white guy who wrote to attack the white woman, and said "I know I benefit from white privilege so I didn't take a really good job" ( you know the executive jobs all white people are offered) instead he took a working class job. The guy was so fucked up that he couldn't see if in fact he could get an executive job he could use it to advance people of color, women, etc.
So of course there is a lot of nonsense associated with the idea.
On the other hand, the woman with the FB does storytelling. I pitched a story how I took 3 young black men under my wing and helped them and in the process learned to see prejudice from their viewpoint, and it changed me and caused me to start confronting it. And she liked the story and said "this is about white privilege." Like I was blind to a lot of stuff until looking at it from another view. And she was right. It is a thing, sometimes misused but a real thing.