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> Just by virtue of being a comfortable white dude I've got news for you: People don't listen because you're a white male, they listen because you're privilege
by zxcvcxz 12y ago
> Just by virtue of being a comfortable white dude
I've got news for you: People don't listen because you're a white male, they listen because you're privileged.
I've never met a "SJW" that actually knows what it's like to be poor, it's all well-off, college educated, mostly white people.
I think most poor people who make their way to the top don't actually get any help, so they end up forming conservative view points, whereas the rich white people just can't understand why poor people don't just stop being poor. It must be because they're black! Congratulations you're a racist.
- wpietri 12y agoYou should meet more people interested in social justice. Plenty of them grew up poor. I did. It's only thanks to a childhood hobby of computers that I'm now doing well. Whiteness is one kind of privilege in US society. So is male-ness. So yes, I'm privileged. And yes, people listen to me better because of that.