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In reply to the discussion: As a white christian male I don't feel privileged by any means [View all]NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)71. You went to Palm Harbor University High School....
and don't understand your privilege. Amazing High School by the way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Harbor_University_High_School
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for some reason, a number of white people, often male think that it's all equal now
CreekDog
Mar 2013
#8
they say there's no privilege so that's saying things are equal, is this herculian logic for you?
CreekDog
Apr 2013
#64
you keep posting as if there's an even playing field regardless of race or gender and that's wrong
CreekDog
Apr 2013
#102
if everyone of a certain race had one less broken leg, it would be a privilege to be the other
CreekDog
Apr 2013
#147
What white males need to do, to understand their privileged status is close their eyes....
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#140
The difference between you and your friends who are not white and even you and the girls in your
Iris
Mar 2013
#3
I'm a white woman and I see my privelege all the time, because I open my eyes.
Happyhippychick
Mar 2013
#4
I don't think that's the case here in the multicultural San Francisco Bay area.
Comrade Grumpy
Mar 2013
#15
Just because you don't know yours or your country's history doesn't make it any less true
CreekDog
Mar 2013
#10
if you think that being white in a non-white neighborhood erases your privilege
CreekDog
Mar 2013
#19
ignoring history is how the women's movement lost so much ground in the last 30 years. no thank you.
bettyellen
Mar 2013
#20
i'm privileged as an american female of south asian descent compared to non american females of
JI7
Mar 2013
#23
I'm 23 and the spectre of privilege is a reality, not opinion (and it does not turn me off).
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2013
#25
I don't see you as privelidged but there probably things you won't have to worry about that others
liberal_at_heart
Mar 2013
#33
I never said he should stand by and not do anything. I said he should fight for justice.
liberal_at_heart
Apr 2013
#133
so it's not enough to alienate the feminists on this board, now we have to move on to
liberal_at_heart
Apr 2013
#45
I walk down the street and people literally hand me $100 bills for being white.
Comrade_McKenzie
Apr 2013
#55
It is argued that if I forfeit some perceived privilege that inequality can be addressed.
Harmony Blue
Apr 2013
#120
Thank you. This is so much harder to explain than it should be. You did it well.
Matariki
Apr 2013
#94
"Most people when I talk to don't even know I was born and raised as a Christian." Where were you...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2013
#59
Dude, please have someone with a clue read this post and explain it to you.
Egalitarian Thug
Apr 2013
#62
This post is all about you, and not about society and its previous class distinctions.
treestar
Apr 2013
#65
I don't know any school in this region that is this un-diverse. 89% white is diverse?
kwassa
Apr 2013
#105
Everything in my life has demonstrated that honors courses are less diverse.
Gravitycollapse
Apr 2013
#136
Here's my take on it, I'm sure many will disagree and perhaps be angry by words, but whatevs...
octothorpe
Apr 2013
#98
Whether you feel privileged has absolutely nothing to do with whether you are privileged.
kwassa
Apr 2013
#124
I wish I could find a way to take advantage of this privilege I allegedly have.
MrSlayer
Apr 2013
#129
It's not invisible. It's so normative that we are blind unless we choose to see.
Gravitycollapse
Apr 2013
#138
keeping the working class divided along racial lines is essential to the ruling class'
arely staircase
Apr 2013
#148