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Originally Posted by icecube
Is pointing out privilege a bad thing, when it is surely there and "certain" groups (as you put it) benefit from the very real marginalization of minorities?
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Individuals benefit and individuals suffer, mostly for reason that have nothing to do with race or gender. The notion that an impoverished, out of work white dude with a grade 10 education living in a trailer in the Appalachians has privilege over a black woman at Yale who is the daughter of a surgeon and a college professor is lunacy.
And marginalisation isn't all due to power structures controlled by the elite. Sub-cultures and individuals vary tremendously in their values and behaviours, and not all lead to healthy and prosperous lives. We all recognise that from looking around at people we know.
Treating people first and foremost as members of groups, not individuals, and trying to re-balance the outcomes of those groups is bewildering folly that can only lead to bitter conflict and violence. People have been warning about this for years, and it's appalling to see those warnings coming true.