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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
That's the essential fallacy of the "privilege" paradigm. You and I are not beneficiaries of any ill-gotten advantage. (It's not a zero sum game.) We are being treated as all people should be treated. Others are being unfairly treated below that standard.
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There's no essential fallacy in what you're saying, just a semantic quibble about the word "privilege" and whether your baseline is normative or positive. We are privileged to be treated in a way that most people are not treated.
I do think, though, that you're missing a huge dynamic, which is that status is relative, and the significance of the behavior that we're talking about here is not that it falls below some standard in an absolute sense, but that it's meant on some level to reinforce a hierarchy of sorts in which white men are generally at the top. There's no point in being the king if you don't have any subjects.
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