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In reply to the discussion: I'm surprised how many DU'ers think aknowledging white male privilege is somehow bigoted [View all]iiibbb
(1,448 posts)... whatever other bias.
For instance. I love kids and would have pursued a career in child education if white males who are interested in young children weren't viewed with such great suspicion.
All I know is that I've had my share of unfair blockades in my life and given where I am in my life I don't exactly feel like it was handed to me on a silver platter.
Overall I think the knot is far to complicated to parse out on an individual basis.
Then there are people who are just primed to be victims their whole lives... which in know means implies that people aren't held down because they are not white or not male... but there is certainly a subset of the population that assume that circumstances are against them because they are not white or not male... but it is in fact something they themselves are responsible for.