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In reply to the discussion: "Let's work to end racial discrimination" is a better approach than "whites are so privileged". [View all]El_Johns
(1,805 posts)The OP simply thinks it doesn't spawn productive discussion.
But you can't hear, or won't hear, and insist on inventing your own explanations, all of which amount to saying the other person is racist or stupid, basically.
My own objections to the term are:
1. divisive
2. disappears the role of the ruling class in founding and perpetuating racist policies and institutions and the very concrete and enduring ways they benefit from it (as opposed to the average white person who while deriving some minor benefit is also harmed by racist policies);
3. disappears class analysis
4. is individualistic
5. offers no avenues to change the situation other than the individualistic "accept that you are privileged and work to change things" - how? with who? all these individuals "activists," where is the movement?
5. offers no good reasons for white people to give up their "privilege" -- if it's really privilege, why would they want to give it up? most people don't willingly give up their privileges.
6. no evidence that it accomplishes anything in the real world.