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My race and ethnicity has nothing to do with whether or not I am actively oppressing others. Whether these are correlated right now is irrelevant to how we shou
by arthurcolle 6y ago
My race and ethnicity has nothing to do with whether or not I am actively oppressing others. Whether these are correlated right now is irrelevant to how we should be behaving in a modern day, postmodern civil society.
Not sure the rest of your post makes any sense. I don't consider myself a racist or a sexist and I find it appalling that I am unable to comment on ongoing social issues without being called a "white male" or being told that my opinions are invalid because my lack of melanin seems to imply I am part of an elite group of oppressors. This is insulting and lacks any intellectual merit.
- hef19898 6y agoI didn't call you racist or sexist. And you brought up "white male" in your post I replied to. Historically speaking, there was bo group more privileged than white, European males. Being one myself, I don't see anything wrong with simply acknowledging that simple fact.
- covid5throw 6y agoMaybe because white men went out and did things? Your idea of privilege didn't just fall in our lap, it came after thousands of years of studying nature, warfare, conquering, etc. It also wasn't guaranteed, what would have happened if Persia conquered Greece?