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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]nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)as very "progressive" in whatever respects. Maybe I'm too optimistic here, but I'd like to think that that might be the basis for some beneficial (to all of us) self-reflection. Sure, heavily criticizing people isn't as likely to win them to your point of view, but there's a certain point past which one has to cut through all the disingenuousness and defensiveness and say, in essence, "Fuck that noise!"
To be brutally honest, I have serious reservations about the OP's sincerity RE: ending discrimination, given how many past posts of his I've seen more or less downplaying specific instances of racism. We all have our blind spots, but when a person has been told over and over again that their posts are condescending and unhelpful - and even smack of privilege in and of themselves - yet they persist in the same approach, demonstrating cluelessness and arrogance all the while, I have to wonder just what they're trying to accomplish.