The last thing I really have to say about this is that the police brutality example is, I think, the only real genuine example of this privilege because it’s something that easily can affect any black person at almost any given time. In other situations, I don’t like this solidarity that people feel they have with others purely because they share a gender or race. If some woman says to me that I’m more privileged than women because I’m less likely to be abused by a spouse than women are, while she is in a completely safe and happy marriage, I think that’s a huge generalization. I’m perfectly willing to say I’m more “privileged” than women who have been abused by a partner, but I’m not going to say I’m more privileged than all women just because some of them have been. It’s situational and contextual and I don’t understand the desire to completely erase all nuance from the discussion.
Post #1089624
- Author
- moviefreakedmind
- Parent topic
- Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1089624/action/topic#1089624
- Date created
- 11-Jul-2017, 9:12 PM