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In reply to the discussion: here is a question regarding my "white privilege", [View all]LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)39. You could get down off the cross and read to educate yourself. That would be nice. nt
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I replied to this post before but here you are again with no response. Here's my same answer.
brush
Apr 2015
#76
UM, heating oil in a big pot is the way popcorn was always made by poor people.
merrily
Apr 2015
#69
Wasn't there a thread (within the last 6 months or so) very similar to this one...
boston bean
Apr 2015
#14
And they are posted, and the OP never returns to respond to anything...
ScreamingMeemie
Apr 2015
#59
As a member of a paradoxically privileged and sometimes maligned and persecuted minority...
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2015
#11
A DUer started a thread yesterday to discuss concrete ways to address institutional racism.
Nye Bevan
Apr 2015
#53
There are not any 'groups' of people's who are stereotyped by the idiots among them
randr
Apr 2015
#31
You are not supposed to feel guilty, but you should acknowledge that it is easier to be white
Marrah_G
Apr 2015
#35
You could get down off the cross and read to educate yourself. That would be nice. nt
LeftyMom
Apr 2015
#39
"I don't hold anything against anybody,....... unless they are an asshole." Self loathing, perhaps?
Buzz Clik
Apr 2015
#48
You're not supposed to feel guilty or pay anything. That's missing the point. n/t
arcane1
Apr 2015
#52
Why would you feel guilt!? I just don't get that at all. Seems to me it signals something unnoticed.
Rex
Apr 2015
#65
I don't get why you think discussing white privilege is shaming or has anything to do with guilt
fishwax
Apr 2015
#68
I imagine it's much more convenient to call it "white shaming" than it is to
LanternWaste
Apr 2015
#82