The discussion isn't going anywhere because you aren't discussing the issues you're raising. This branch of the thread has been respectful, but even when treated with respect, you are unable to engage in a conversation about race that asks you to simply explain your thoughts on anyone's terms but your own.
The act that you have done is itself an expression of white privilege. White privilege is living in a world in which your ethnic identity is so central to the culture that you never have to think of race as something that applies to you. It is never being an other in the dominant culture, and never experiencing what it is to be an other while engaging with that dominant culture. It is being able to ignore race entirely unless it negatively affects you, and only havingit affect you because your previously limitless opportunities as a white man are now limited by people of other races.
It is labeling anything that points to the existence of racial privilege in the United States of America, such as conversations of privilege, as racist, and then running away when the conversation starts to get a little real.
And PS - anywhere you go in the Americas, being white will be to your advantage, that's one of the wonders of colonialism. |
