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In reply to the discussion: As a white christian male I don't feel privileged by any means [View all]CreekDog
(46,192 posts)64. they say there's no privilege so that's saying things are equal, is this herculian logic for you?
you either believe there is generally speaking, privilege of some sort or amount based on skin color.
or you believe that there isn't.
you're attempting to say there's no privilege, yet black folks are subject to more discrimination. those two ideas are not compatible.
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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