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2020-08-10 02:40:43 +00:00
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#+title: Privilege
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Privilege is not a negative construct, it is the absence of some struggle.
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It's not uncommon to want someone to shut up that fails to grasp a situation
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they lack any perspective of. An example would be having a cis person griping
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about how noisy trans folks are about wanting special treatment, missing the
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point of the trans person just wanting to not be treated as somehow subhuman.
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The cis person lacks perspective on what the trans person's experience is, and
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has the privilege of not having to.
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2021-07-29 22:51:04 +00:00
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Alternatively, a white person with [[id:50445c53-febe-471a-be5f-e33b57981835][Generational wealth]] discussing poor
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minorities and their behavior, whilst being blind to the history behind why
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they're in those positions. When folks bristle at their disparate experience
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being pointed out as though that itself is somehow oppressive, though... I'm
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picturing a talking head like Tucker Carlson raving about how "they" claim our
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country and it's history are "racist". Like, yes. That's a clear fact.
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