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Dead Cosmonaut
Nov 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

OwlFancier posted:

You've had this explained to you many times and you aren't getting it.

Having privilege is not supposed to make you feel shame or gladness, neither of those are remotely useful. Privilege is a concept which allows you to understand your position in society and others' positions in society better.

That you want to inject a moral component into it is your failing, stop doing it if you don't like it, because nobody else wants you to do it.

You can even use it to explain why as a white poor person you might have a lovely life. It's because the extremely wealthy have monumental amounts of privilege which allows them to set the laws and policies which keep your life as it is.

People keep equivocating having good opinions on race with being self aware about your own upbringing. I think, in particular, young white liberals like to use this tactic because this magically explains away whatever discrepancies between them and someone else with a similar upbringing (i.e. where thirty or so years ago their boomer parents decide to move into a suburb to get away from "those people in urban areas").

Dead Cosmonaut fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Jan 2, 2017

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