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Isherwood  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Explaining white privilege to a broke white person

I like the monopoly analogy. You, white guy, started a game of monopoly. Your friend, black guy, came into the game about 10 turns after you started. Yeah, you both are playing now, yeah there's still some property, yeah you both technically have a chance of winning, but those 10 turns are probably going to screw the black guy over.





fudog  ·  3413 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Except with monopoly he has an advantage over all the losing people because you get seed money to start out with.

tacocat  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's pretty good except most games of Monopoly end with boredom or anger rather than a winner.

I understand I'm being kind of an asshole.

Isherwood  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    most games of Monopoly end with boredom or anger

Just like real life?

Assholes never bothered me so long as they're right or they're funny.