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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Dissected, it applies everywhere, in endless permutations, and therefore might as well apply nowhere.
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This is dumb. A thing can be everywhere to varying degrees and magnitudes and still matter when the degrees and magnitudes are nontrivial. Flooding. Earthquakes. You get the idea of ubiquity v magnitude.
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It also stupidly expands on and dilutes real issues: Racism, and Sexism.
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It's one manifestation of those issues. How can pointing it out possibly expand (wtf does that even mean?) or dilute awareness of these issues?
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They're quite real. Whether some white guy like me "doesn't get" his privilege or doesn't care doesn't matter. Nor does it change my disgust at sexism and racism.
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If you can't admit that you get an advantage from not facing these issues, you have no real disgust.
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I'm on the right team. Been there from the start. Just don't point your finger at me and tell me I've a duty to apologize or empathize simply because of a biological quirk of my birth.
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You won't even admit to the most basic of advantages, much less that you owe empathy to others. You aren't on the right team.
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I'm not expanding on it here, but I've personally worked against private prisons. Empathy's for the "build awareness" crowd. Talk and not much more.
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Yeah, you think "woke enough but no more" is tenable. It's not.
