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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Huh. So every day when you walk out the door, you feel it's easy to be you because you're white. When you're driving to work, when you grab a coffee at Tim's, when you sit down at your cubicle, when you buy your groceries at Co-op, when you talk the people at Shaw on the phone - you feel it's all easier because you're part of the favoured class.
And you think every white person should feel the same? The out-of-work drywaller who's struggling to make rent. The alcoholic with maxed out credit cards. The woman going through a bitter divorce. The 50 year old trying to retrain after his knees are shot from laying carpet for 30 years. The senior struggling with depression. All should recognize that they wear a cloak of privilege, and have no right to question the prejudice and anger of anyone who isn't white?
What an astonishingly simplistic lens through which you regard the world.
You might want to give this interview a listen:
Beyond the Politics of Race |
You know nothing about me. Only that I claim not to be offended by someone speaking out against my "race." And I don't think about white privilege at all as I go about my day to day life, which has plenty of tragedy and challenges nevertheless. That's the whole thing about white privilege. All it is is the lack of discrimination based on skin colour, and the built in advantage that comes from it.