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Post #1100831

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Jeebus
Parent topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Date created
22-Aug-2017, 8:54 PM

I’m gonna do it anyway. Personally, I think the problem of ‘white privilege’ needs to be framed differently. It’s too easy for the concept of ‘white privilege’ to be taken personally, as I feel that Warbler has shown. In the eyes of some; ‘white privilege’ belittles their accomplishments by telling them “that’s great and all, but it wasn’t all you, you had it easier because you’re white.” I also think that the term lacks nuance. It’s been brought up here before; but it’s silly to say that a homeless white man has privilege, when he’s on the lowest level of society. He doesn’t have any special rights, or advantages, he’s the definition of disadvantaged. Perhaps he has it slightly better than a homeless black man, I don’t know, but it’s downright insulting to say that he’s privileged.