13173423, It's a cop out only if people are disingenuous
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Thu Jul-13-17 12:34 PM
I think we are grown-ups and we all know the relative advantages of white male privileges significantly outweigh black male privileges.
I also think people aren't being honest when they say that in certain situations there are advantages to being a black male versus being a black woman.
>>I actually appreciate that you're saying both
>>parties are "privileged" (even though I think that's a bad
>>term to use, since it's tainted by unprovable theories), but
>>the context HAS to be understood.
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>Adding: bad term to use, since it's tainted by unprovable
>theories AND taken from a discourse that was originally
>meant to examine white supremacy. As stated elsewhere,
>new privilege discourse has diffused the ORIGINAL discourse
>to the point of neutrality by applying it to everyone.
>It's literally white folks saying "I'm oppressive? But but
>we're ALL oppressive!" (McIntosh admitted that)
>It's kinda All Lives Matter logic, and I just don't think
>Black people need to keep allowing ourselves to be played like
>this.
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