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Blue_true

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10. Unfortunately a person's looks DO have a lot to do with it.

Reply to qwlauren35 (Reply #8)

Tue Jun 9, 2020, 11:59 PM

Jun 2020

I have had a delicate face all of my life, it just doesn't look threatening. That is likely the case with you, along with your light skin. What I have noticed from the way Whites react, there unfortunately is a hierarchy, light skin and straight noses seem to lower their guard, dark skin and wide-flared noses seem to put them into some other zone.

In my case, I just think it is my soft face, but my nose is straight because of things in my ancestry.

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Have You Checked Your Privilege Yet? [View all] qwlauren35 Jun 2020 OP

Pretty sure this exercise also, more subtly, points out white male privilege. Ms. Toad Jun 2020 #1

Keep in mind qwlauren35 Jun 2020 #2

Not necessarily a woman. Ms. Toad Jun 2020 #13

Where did you get your info that very few white men put a finger down to two questions? Kaleva Jun 2020 #11

By watching lots of the videos made in response to the exercise. Ms. Toad Jun 2020 #12

I have only watched on such video. How many white women put a finger down? Kaleva Jun 2020 #14

To those two questions? Ms. Toad Jun 2020 #15

The videos show that white women are the most privileged then? Kaleva Jun 2020 #17

White women and white men are roughly equally privileged. Ms. Toad Jun 2020 #18

This would be interesting if it was done scientifically. Kaleva Jun 2020 #19

It would be. Ms. Toad Jun 2020 #20

White guy with 5 fingers left. Oddly, it's white women who've clutched their purse... Kaleva Jun 2020 #3

I think qwlauren35 Jun 2020 #4

I was one for three on the police questions. Blue_true Jun 2020 #6

Hmmm... qwlauren35 Jun 2020 #7

The thing is, I am Black. Blue_true Jun 2020 #9

I am Black and I have never had White people cross Blue_true Jun 2020 #5

FYI qwlauren35 Jun 2020 #8

Unfortunately a person's looks DO have a lot to do with it. Blue_true Jun 2020 #10

That's also relative privilege - Ms. Toad Jun 2020 #16