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In reply to the discussion: "Let's work to end racial discrimination" is a better approach than "whites are so privileged". [View all]lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)... there's no justification, point, or reason to begin the conversation about the next part; corrective action?
I think reasonable people can disagree about what language should be used to conceptualize personally-mediated, internalized and institutionalized overt, covert, conscious and unconscious, bias, stereotype, and bigotry. I don't think that this semantic nonsense should be used as an excuse to avoid the conversation about what corrective action should be done about it.
Largely, I think that is how these arguments about white privilege are being used. To a) avoid the difficult conversation, b) make it exclusively incumbent upon someone else to solve it or c) to co-opt the issue for ones own grindstone.
The issue is framed the way it is is because it enables feminists to extrapolate the legitimate presence of racial and sexual orientation bigotry into their own +2 shield of victimhood. Thus, it's rarely "white privilege" or "hetero privilege" but almost always "straight white male privilege"... the fact that black men are disproportionately imprisoned mostly because they are men escapes notice.
Count how many times "men" or "male" is used in this thread about white privilege to illustrate my point.