The sooner people in general can accept that they may have blindspots the better. I don’t know if it’s culture or human nature or a combination of both but people (in particular white men) don’t seem to either want to admit to being part of a problem or acknowledging a problem that doesn’t affect them and that they can’t see in their daily life. Basically, people don’t like being wrong. (I can sympathize.)
The truth is, if you’re a white man (as I am), you don’t experience institutional racism/sexism. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. You can either accept this fact and look outside of your own bubble for evidence as to where and how and why and to what extent, or you can retreat back and proclaim that white privilege can’t possibly exist and that anyone complaining about problems that you don’t personally experience are just making things up.
If you want to be more understanding of the world around you and more empathetic towards your fellow humans, you can seek out the information. Otherwise, you can continue about your business - it won’t affect you any, obviously, but just know that to some extent you will be part of the problem.
Do you always have to be so self-righteous? Condemning a group for being awful and that they have no problems won’t win any of their suppport, this is partly why the Clinton campaign did not do as well as it should have. Instead of saying “You’re evil” or whatever, provide examples of what is wrong, like Catbus did, and what we can do to solve it. It would be a lot less frustrating and a lot more productive.
This is the kind of shit that makes it impossible to reach a point of understanding.
I asked for examples. Fuck off.
You say all the same shit over and over again, and believe yourself to be so right that you can’t even explain your position. So there’s a problem. I didn’t deny that. What is it? What do we do about it? Evidently TRYING TO UNDERSTAND and not blindly accepting whatever you say as gospel makes me an asshole. So I give up. I tried to have a discussion, but you continue to deny to have one because you believe I’m “plugging my ears and going la la la” simply for asking for more from you. But you haven’t said anything of substance other than there’s a problem and white men are the root of it. WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT? If there’s nothing that can be done, there’s no use talking about it. Goddamn.
Overreaction much?