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| re: White privilege | |
| Posted by: ryhog 08:01 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
| In reply to: re: White privilege - BroadwayTonyJ 07:45 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
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| you are of course correct that these things are more complicated than single sentences can describe, but let's cut to the chase: no person who appears to be white walks around in the same fear of being hit on the head with a club, shot, beaten up, et al by a cop as any black man routinely does. And that's why we are talking about this. | |
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| re: White privilege | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 08:35 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 08:34 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
| In reply to: re: White privilege - ryhog 08:01 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
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| I'm not arguing with you. However, some of the things stated on this thread are over-simplifications and the word "racist" is being tossed around much too causally (not by you). I just thought I should add some clarifications that really do need to be said. I was very careful to make sure every word in my previous post was accurate. | |
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| re: White privilege | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:04 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
| In reply to: re: White privilege - BroadwayTonyJ 08:34 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
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| there are things that have been said in this thread that don't please me, but I was not arguing with you either. I do think we have to be careful with "racist" which, to me (and I think this was discussed previously here), is an "active" word that represents evil, and I think a lot of what's discussed has to do with "racism" especially of the systemic variety and that's something we can and must crawl our way out of. Let me also mention the other post about "class." I think it is confounding to use that term in the US as if the UK sense has any application. We don't have those sorts of class distinctions, and it is a terrible mistake to think race in America is a class. I don't think it moves our enormous race challenges forward an angstrom. |
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