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merrily

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16. As stated, not everyone suffered historically in the same way or to the same degree.

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Reply #13)

Mon May 12, 2014, 05:43 PM

May 2014

But, once you've stated that, how useful is it to keep picking at those scabs? The goal is to stop the suffering for everyone.

That's why I don't even like to say "equal marriage rights." Because, in 2014, that makes it seem like it's about gays. Equal rights for everyone, period. Every inequality diminishes all of us.

ETA: By the same token, allowing your own suffering to blind you to the suffering of others is probably not good--or politically expedient.

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For you people who claim privilege isn't real [View all] Lee-Lee May 2014 OP

I agree privilege is real. However, why do you put your race down when job-hunting? merrily May 2014 #1

If it's on the form, I fill it in Lee-Lee May 2014 #3

I have never seen it on a job application; and it's not on my driver's license. merrily May 2014 #4

The claim is they get it for "statistical purposes" Lee-Lee May 2014 #7

You should have heard me trying to get out of giving my race during a phone survey. merrily May 2014 #10

All types are quite real. Behind the Aegis May 2014 #2

Women of all orientations were given that excuse forever, even when they were single moms or merrily May 2014 #5

Lily Tomlin in "9 to 5" Behind the Aegis May 2014 #6

I agree. As you said, though, there are all kinds of privilege. merrily May 2014 #8

"though it's more underground now " Behind the Aegis May 2014 #9

No, not always--and not in the same ways. merrily May 2014 #11

Yes, there is quite a bit of bigotry out there. Behind the Aegis May 2014 #14

Agree. I am totally out of patience with the competition. merrily May 2014 #15

P.S. I don't believe that anyone who has ever been discriminated against for any reason that merrily May 2014 #12

Well, denial can be a strong thing in some. Behind the Aegis May 2014 #13

As stated, not everyone suffered historically in the same way or to the same degree. merrily May 2014 #16