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>As a beneficiary of privilege, it makes me uncomfortable when people point out that racism and sexism exist. Such as the privilege of being the majority race
by Lawtonfogle 11y ago
>As a beneficiary of privilege, it makes me uncomfortable when people point out that racism and sexism exist.
Such as the privilege of being the majority race in the local neighborhood even if you are a minority at the national level or the privilege off being the majority of the voting population.
What bothers me the most about conversations dealing with privilege is that the louder someone talks about others, the greater their denial and downplay of their own.
- beat 11y agoI saw a kind of disturbing statistic recently... white males are only 31% of the population, but they're 66% of police officers, and 95% of prosecutors. Not to mention 85% of elected officials. That's a lot of concentration of power.
- Lawtonfogle 11y ago>white males This means I get to throw out your entire point, right? /s >That's a lot of concentration of power. Depends if you are talking race or sex. For sex, you just need to look at areas like the Duluth model of domestic violence or the disparity in sentencing favoring women even when adjusted for the same crime to see that this doesn't do a thing for the average male. Compared this to how the rich, regardless of race or gender, have an unfair advantage within the legal system to see that sex/gender doesn't matter much.