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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]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)It wasn't addressed to you and I did not know of your existence when I wrote the post to which you objected. What I have done is spend a fair bit of time reading in the African American forum and seeking to understand how those members feel. Your contention that only white people care about these things is not born out by posts in that forum. You may indeed disagree with me, which is fine. I never claimed or would begin to imagine that all African Americans think the same way. Your statement that only white people care about the concept of white privilege or these threads telling AA members what they are allowed to say in public is simply false, as you can see if you read any of the posts in the AA group.
Why you are more angry at me than at those who insist black people have no right to speak as they choose about these issues strikes me as strange. I don't claim to know which forms of racism matter. I don't experience racism and wouldn't presume to determine some serious and some trivial.
Your whole point about bringing white people down makes no sense to me. Acknowledging privilege doesn't bring anyone down. I loose nothing by acknowledging racism around me. Some, however, obviously are invested in making sure they never have to hear the points of view of anyone who challenges them. These same people hostile to the voices of people or color also are hostile to feminism and equal rights overall. When I see something I find problematic, I have a right to speak out, just as you do. What you do not have a right to do is attribute false motives to make claims that are easily showed to be false by reading in the AA forum.
You have said you don't read in their because they are the same people in the BOG forum. Tell me what you find so objectionable about supporting the President of the United States? This is a Democratic forum, after all. The presumption is that everyone is a Democrat.