| re: White privilege |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 01:57 pm EDT 08/28/20 |
| In reply to: re: White privilege - Gustave 01:03 pm EDT 08/28/20 |
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I get that, but at the same time I think the point of the term is to make it a personal awareness and accountability thing. We could say "black disadvantage" but the point is to make people aware of the benefit their lives have due to whiteness rather than just the hardship black and brown people have due to their skin color.
Also I think in some ways that is the opposite of the goal... treating people as individuals rather than a group, with regard to oppression, puts the onus on the individual to have overcome or deserved or not deserved some kind of oppression or discriminatory behavior against them in their life. It also allows white people to say "I am friends with this black person so is doing fine, so things are fine" rather than saying "all black people are living in a country with deep rooted and systemic racism." It also also people to think or behave as if "the lives of the black people *I know* matter, but it's not my problem if the black people I don't know are killed or oppression or turned in a slave of the prison industrial complex" etc. It's also why we say "ALL Black Lives Matter", to stop allowing non-blacks and blacks alike from cherry picking what type of black people matter, i.e. leaving out LGBTQ+ (especially trans) lives that don't fit into the vision of humans or America or blackness that a lot of people (non-black and black) seem to have. |
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