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In reply to the discussion: "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is" [View all]Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)10. You must focus on my intentions, which cancel out the impact of my behavior that is obvious in your reply of all the good intentions, thank you, that you've achieved and continue to achieve. But the behavior in your response is I suspect a result of Rule 3: There must be trust between us. You must trust that I am in no way racist before you can give me feedback on my racism. Again, after all of the good things you've done to garner trust that you actually fight racism, Effieblack, I take it, seems to discount your good works as meaningful. Therefore you do not trust that she points racism out because maybe she should be focused on the good white Christian males do, and therefore she is in no way capable of giving feedback on white male racism. That makes sense to me in reading Rule 1. Do not give me feedback on my racism under any circumstances. "My racism" to me means the white male category in general.
11. To suggest my behavior had a racist impact is to have misunderstood me. You will need to allow me to explain until you can acknowledge that it was your misunderstanding. This I think is a result of Rule 9 Giving me feedback on my racial privilege invalidates the form of oppression that I experience (i.e. classism, sexism, heterosexism). We will then need to focus on how you oppressed me, of course, being born white, straight, heterosexual, Christian, and your dad's oppression as a white man.