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> It’s no big deal, moral or otherwise, simply life. It's a big deal since people exploit the privilege talk to manipulate you. It usually boils down to gettin

> It’s no big deal, moral or otherwise, simply life. It's a big deal since people exploit the privilege talk to manipulate you. It usually boils down to getting your money, job position or your vote. See the Healing from Toxic Whiteness webinar and other thinly veiled indulgences sold to nice, gullible men. But they shouldn't be ashamed for their own identity.

gumby 9y ago
I'm not really sure what point you are making. Just because something can be exploited doesn't mean it's bad. Free speech, automobiles, secure communications...all can be used for good or bad. Sure, there exist people will exploit anything for their own ends, perhaps in this case either guilt-tripping or validating a person's existence. For example that's the whole basis of nationalism. My point is that every one of us is born, without our control, with a set of advantages and disadvantages, basically an enormous set of D20-rolls. Nobody has any moral superiority or inferiority based on that set of advantages and disadvantages. But you, and society, derive an ethical benefit when you can dispassionately recognize how your set of advantages/disadvantages helps and hurts you especially when those impacts are implicit. Here's a trivial example of how this awareness can help you: I can walk around fine so why should I want businesses to take up space with access ramps instead of staircases and street kerbs? Well when I was on crutches I suddenly needed those ramps. If I hadn't been attuned to the invisible advantage I had of being able to walk around I probably wouldn't have supported this kind of upgrade. Another, more diffuse example: that smart kid in a poor neighborhood, if she has an opportunity to go to a good school might develop the cure for the disease you have. You'll never know either way.

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> It’s no big deal, moral or otherwise, simply life. It's a big deal since people exploit the privilege talk to manipulate you. It usually boils down to gettin

by Red_Tarsius 9y ago

gumby 9y ago
I'm not really sure what point you are making. Just because something can be exploited doesn't mean it's bad. Free speech, automobiles, secure communications...all can be used for good or bad. Sure, there exist people will exploit anything for their own ends, perhaps in this case either guilt-tripping or validating a person's existence. For example that's the whole basis of nationalism. My point is that every one of us is born, without our control, with a set of advantages and disadvantages, basically an enormous set of D20-rolls. Nobody has any moral superiority or inferiority based on that set of advantages and disadvantages. But you, and society, derive an ethical benefit when you can dispassionately recognize how your set of advantages/disadvantages helps and hurts you especially when those impacts are implicit. Here's a trivial example of how this awareness can help you: I can walk around fine so why should I want businesses to take up space with access ramps instead of staircases and street kerbs? Well when I was on crutches I suddenly needed those ramps. If I hadn't been attuned to the invisible advantage I had of being able to walk around I probably wouldn't have supported this kind of upgrade. Another, more diffuse example: that smart kid in a poor neighborhood, if she has an opportunity to go to a good school might develop the cure for the disease you have. You'll never know either way.