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>I can't imagine even the most obnoxious cops treating middle-class white women that way. Umm do you remember the OWS protests?
by fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
>I can't imagine even the most obnoxious cops treating middle-class white women that way.
Umm do you remember the OWS protests?
- beat 13y agoYeah, and I was on the ground for the 2008 Republican convention, too. I know what tear gas feels like. But police behavior toward masses of people in crowd-control situations at protests (where everyone in sight is treated as a criminal) is fundamentally different from police behavior toward individual bystanders at a small, nonviolent emergency scene. So I don't think your exception is valid or applicable. The essence of privilege is the default treatment you typically receive from strangers. Middle class white women are perceived as the least threatening stereotype by police. Men are more likely to be seen as a threat to be subjugated, non-whites more so, the obviously poor more so.