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| re: i think it's quite clear who it's about | |
| Posted by: ryhog 09:41 pm EDT 08/27/20 | |
| In reply to: re: i think it's quite clear who it's about - huskyital 07:44 am EDT 08/27/20 | |
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| "I have never felt privileged." You're not supposed to. It is not about you. "As an educator black or white we had to meet the standards." Seriously? If you are educated (much less an educator) you have surely read studies about the disparities. "My first supervisor was black and a great guy and he had no problem rising in the ranks." Did he tell you that or do you just assume that? Or was he a great guy because he didn't confront you with his truth? Blacks who have no problems rising in the ranks have generally mastered the fine art of knowing what to say and what not to say. Cf. the next question. "Do Blacks have black privilege in basketball and football?" Ask Colin Kaepernick. "Let's stop with this privilege crap." OK. You go first. I don't know what you point was here, but if you had set out to illuminate the worst of white privilege, you couldn't have done a better job. |
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| re: i think it's quite clear who it's about | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 10:07 pm EDT 08/27/20 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 10:05 pm EDT 08/27/20 | |
| In reply to: re: i think it's quite clear who it's about - ryhog 09:41 pm EDT 08/27/20 | |
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| Also, while surely people of color who are not in the "great guy" category have risen in ranks, there are countless white men who have, and they didn't have to be "great guys" to do so. To say this also implies that if a black person hasn't risen it might be due to them just not being someone their coworkers consider a "great guy" rather than other reasons often at play that have nothing to do with them. (I'm not saying that POC, like any person, can't be unpleasant to work with or not good at their job, I'm saying that white people do not have to work against the issue of their skin and hundreds of years of racism passed down and a system designed to put them at a disadvantage.) There's a similar seed in the idea that we shouldn't be saying that a black man murdered by police wasn't doing anything "wrong" to make it seem unfair... doing something "suspicious" or even committing a crime does not make you eligible for cold blooded murder by police, just as it doesn't in almost all cases for white people. |
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