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pipi_k
(21,020 posts)that people could give a rest...
Nearly every time someone posts a controversial subject and a person dares to come in and give an unwanted opinion, there's one or more subthreads between two or more people going on and on and on about how clueless, obtuse, trollish that person is.
They "should be banned".
They're "a piece of work".
All this being lobbed back and forth in front of the person they're talking about as if he's not there.
Dehumanizing him like he's a piece of damned furniture.
Honest to god, it's like reading the Facebook posts of my 13 year old granddaughter and her friends.
The person you and the OP are disrespecting so thoroughly is, IMO, being highly patient and respectful.
Oh, and just FYI, that doesn't mean I agree with his position, although I do understand why he would have it. (Bolded for the benefit of anyone who might accidentally skip over it and then attempt to twist my words)
It only means that it's discouraging and depressing to see many people who call themselves "Liberals" being pretty damned intolerant of others' rights to have opinions, even if they disagree with said opinions.
And in closing...while I don't deny that white privilege exists, I do have to wonder what white privilege I supposedly enjoyed the times when I, a white female, have been directed to the "bargain basement" of an upscale store when I hadn't even asked where it was...
...or when I've been followed around a store by an employee who thought I was going to rob the store blind...
... Or maybe the time when I enjoyed white American privilege after being stopped by a customs agent on the border coming back from Canada and my (white male) companion and I being subjected to a humiliating search of our vehicle, belongings, and persons...
... Or what white female privilege I enjoyed from a state cop on a rainy highway one morning while headed to work and I was pulled over while tooling along in my little Honda CVCC. I got a stern lecture from the cop about how I'm supposed to have my headlights on at the same time my windshield wipers are on. And this, all while cars without headlights on are speeding past where I've been pulled over.
So while I won't deny that white privilege exists, I will say that I have two (white) cousins who are married to black men, and someday I'll have to get around to asking them if their hubbies have ever experienced the same things I, a white female, have.
It would be truly ironic if they never have, yes?
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