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In reply to the discussion: The whole gun regulation debate come down to 3 words, white male privilege [View all]NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)"You know the thing about privilege. You usually don't know you have it." is nothing more than a discussion blocker, and you should know that.
It suggests that members of the dominant group have no valid opinions. BS.
My response is to the OP, that the reduction of the gun regulation debate to white male privilege is so utterly simplistic that I think it's ignorant (at best) and bigoted (at worst).
Of course the NRA is mostly white, but they don't speak for all white males or even for a majority of that demographic.
It's a distraction, they're a distraction, we need to be looking at the root causes of gun violence, of all violence, and poverty is a large part of it.
We need to work at the problem together, and finger-pointing at any group, large or small, privileged or not, is just bigotry.
I can't believe that you don't see that simple reality.