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In reply to the discussion: Fuck your "pro-life" anti-abortion, pro-gun, anti-white privilege arguments. [View all]Lunacee_2013
(529 posts)I think the problem is sometimes people feel like discussions on white privilege, feminism, LBGT rights, etc., are rants personally targeting them even though they are not about them. (That feeling that every post is about you and your life might actually be a part of the whole privilege thing.) The posts are about the system that keeps everyone in their place, and yes, that. includes white people. I haven't seen anyone here say that white, straight men can't be used or abused. There are plenty of poor or working class white guys who aren't getting their fair share. That being said however, women, POC, gay people as a whole still face more b.s. then their white counterparts.
I do think that class and money are starting to matter more, and the bigger the gap between the 1% and the rest of us gets, the more they will matter. But, at this point in time, gender, race and sexual orientation more often then not, still matter more then class or money. I have noticed that the GOP likes to make poor/working class white males feel like they are being attacked by women's groups, black or gay people etc., so those men will vote for them and against their own economic self-interest. Why else would someone who makes under $50,000-$60,000 vote for anyone who says they're against healthcare for all, raising taxes on the uber-rich, founding programs like food stamps or head start, and pro-war?