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What's important to you about words like "white privilege" "cis male" and "rape culture" is how they make you feel. Or how they make people to whom they apply feel. That's seriously fucked up.
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I don't have feelings on this stuff. I don't take offense. I don't like dumb McWords. They annoy me. I hate corporate lingo, and I hate this sort of lingo. It suggests a failing in literacy.
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Oh, right, you've no obligation to think about how they affect people to whom they don't apply (or apply differently), because that would be empathy, which is a thing that only crazy people do.
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Empathy is trying to feel how others feel. There's no duty to do that. I understand how others are harmed, how others are unfairly told how to live. Intolerance is the greatest social harm out there, IMO.
Just don't demand I emotionally grasp what everyone's feeling. That's obnoxious. You don't have any obligation to feel what it's like to be in my shoes, nor I yours.
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Strangely, you can grasp the criminal justice system generating unfair outcomes, but you also bristle at "racism" involving anything other than outright, expressed animus. Why do you have empathy for the unjustly imprisoned, but not for the unjustly withheld from opportunity? Is it first hand experience with the system, thus giving you a proximity you don't have on other issues. Or is it just the obvious involvement of the state (which is harder to see in other contexts)?
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I totally think the system is rigged to fuck over minorities. I think it's wrong and I think we should do something about it. I don't need to "feel" what it's like to be a victim to know when someone's being victimized and see a need to remedy it. Think of me this way... I'd be the first person to argue for absolute tolerance, and for our predatory system to stop preying on the poor and minorities. But I don't need to or desire to emotionally empathize with any of these victims. I don't need or desire to empathize with anyone, frankly. I think it's an overrated idea. The better course is to have a pure rational view of right and wrong and follow that north star. Leave the emotions for the emotional.
Regarding the state, that comes from first hand knowledge. The state is the scariest villain out there, and it doesn't care about justice. Not a fucking bit. It cares about wins. And it goes for the easy win against the poor person every time. It's a national disgrace. I'd sooner dig ditches than work as a prosecutor. I find it appalling we elect so many of them to political office.
