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That is a highly privileged position from someone who benefits from the current system, or at the very least isn't actively harmed by it. I realize I know noth
by deanCommie 7y ago
That is a highly privileged position from someone who benefits from the current system, or at the very least isn't actively harmed by it.
I realize I know nothing about your station, but understand that being able to make that statement is inherently privileged, and one millions of people around the world cannot proclaim.
If you have access to benefits and advantages in the system that others do not, then if you are not actively working to improve that system, you are COMPLICIT. Plain and simple.
Nothing happens autonomously or through self-correction. It happens through the blood, sweat, tears, and sacrifice of others (including those as privileged as yourself) while you disengage and offer nothing.
- slg 7y agoPeople hate the word privilege nowadays (and that is probably why you are being downvoted), but I really can't think of any other word for the idea that something like civil rights for LGBTQ+ people happens out of some type of "self-correction". People fight for that. They literally die for that. It doesn't just happen automatically. To quote Desmond Tutu: >If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Viliam1234 7y agoDid Desmond Tutu participate in all conflicts in the world, or only the selected ones? Because people can care about many things, and yet your favorite cause may not be among them.
- cousin_it 7y agoThings were achieved by blood for millennia, and not much got better. But after a couple centuries of technological growth and free exchange, things are better. The person you're replying to doesn't "disengage and offer nothing", they participate in technological growth and free exchange, for which you declare them complicit and call for blood.