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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
12. The difference is that privilege is something that's given
Sun Jun 2, 2019, 09:34 PM
Jun 2019

Versus entitlement, which is something that he felt that he could take.

If a bunch of large, burly white me were up on that stage talking, I doubt that he would feel entitled enough to wrestle a mic away from them.

More than likely, he would demand the mic and expect to be given a voice on equal terms.

Instead, he felt entitled enough to do what he did to black women. Let’s not disregard the fact that sexism and disrespect of black women from a position of white entitlement is also a problem on the left as well.

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