Which is better?

[sabrina 1]

56. I don't know anyone like that, but then most of my friends are Liberal Democrats. Maybe you should

try to avoid the company of ignorant people. Did you know, btw, since you appear not to know this, that many white people have suffered incredible oppression and would be stunned to know how privileged they are. Here are a few examples, Ireland, under the thumb of the British for eight hundred years, murdered, hung, beaten, jailed, tortured and eventually half the population starved to death. When some fled their native land and came here, they were further abused, greeted with sings 'no Irish need apply'. Shall I go on? I doubt they felt privileged.

As I said, I don't associate with bigots. Sounds to me like you need a new circle of friends and acquaintances. Of course ignorant bigots exist, but why you associate with such people?

Labels suck, they always have. Applying labels to minorities has long been a weapon against them. No person I know ever uses labels because it leads to creating 'an other', something most Progressives are intensely aware of.

Labeling of entire groups of people led to the holocaust. Labeling of the people of Ireland led to the slaughter of half the original population. Labeling is not a progressive value.

Iow, labeling IS bigotry, it is ignorant, it assumes all members of a group are 'the other'. Thanks for introducing a new one, assuming this was your idea. I could give you a long history lesson regarding 'privilege' around the world from the beginning of time. You would be amazed how the word 'privilege' has never been limited to people of any particular ethnicity, but you have to care about PEOPLE to bother spending the time.

Coming from a very oppressed heritage, I despise labeling. But that's just me. 'Camel jockeys' 'sand n@#$%@s' labeling, the military used it in Iraq in order to dehumanize the people we were there to invade and make it easier to kill them.

Labeling is dangerous. It should NEVER be acceptable in a civilized society.