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iza  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Explaining white privilege to a broke white person

Ah yes, if only those ignorant white people understood what privilege means they would stop being so damn racist. This whole thing is pointless and condescending. Everyone knows what it means, they disagree with how relevant it is. Everyone has different problems and grossly over generalizing them isn't useful. More importantly, racial and gender privilege is absolutely dwarfed by class privilege. Those are my thoughts on the matter anyway, maybe I'm just a bigot.





kgb_operative  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well yes, actually: if people who benefit from structural prejudices were able to see the ways in which they benefit from those systems along with the flipside detriments, then we might get more people within the dominant groups self-reflective enough to question whether their own behavior feeds into the systems of prejudice.

On race and gender privilege vs class privilege: it's very easy to ignore the privilege you have in favor of the privilege that you don't. Class is a large problem, but class issues cannot be easily separated from race issues when white america spent more than a century after ending slavery baking systemic racism into the economic foundations of the country.