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It's natural to think this way and it's a struggle to overcome it. People are not only members of "groups" that you chose for them based on their race, sex, co
by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
It's natural to think this way and it's a struggle to overcome it.
People are not only members of "groups" that you chose for them based on their race, sex, country, etc. Each person deserves dignity as a human. Even if their ancestors and yours were enemies, it's not right to use tribal affiliation to judge them. Doing this promotes conflict and eventually violence.
A group is made up of many people and deciding how much "privilege" a group has is like asking the temperature of Europe. You can use math to average, but that doesn't mean much to a person in Turkey or a person in Norway.
- krapp 9y agoYet here we are, discussing an article which frames the effects of globalism, automation and the economic collapse of Middle America explicitly in terms of a crisis of white identity. If this same article were written about "rising anxiety among American blacks," many of the people insisting that we understand and respect the plight of the white rural male and recognize how justifiable their anger is, would denounce it as racist and ask what being black has to do with anything. I can have sympathy for the poor, for the downtrodden and oppressed, but I can't have sympathy for someone who feels the mere presence of other races is a threat to their identity.