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40. Thank you for the constructive reply.

Posts such as yours are far better than the obsessive "beating the drum of WP" for no apparent reason than to do so. Why? Because as I said in my previous thread, we do get it by and large. So if anyone wants to solely focus on that, you'll have a thread full of malcontent because most white folks alive today did not create the societal conditions as they are. I/we don't wake up every day and think what it is today we can do to further cement the conditions as they exist. We just don't. I get up every day to go to work to provide for my family. To continue to bang the drum as though we like our WP, is just going to alienate us from the cause of ending racism. In the end, this ends up being a circular argument. Does racism exist due to WP? Or does WP exist because of racism? Why argue over that when we could be taking steps to ending racism. As I see it, if you go about combating racism via continually telling people they are privileged(as though that is the problem causing racism) and they somehow don't feel that way(and as I've said already, we get it), then you end up doing nothing but stirring up shit instead of stirring up help in combating racism. And now I'll be attacked and condemned and alerted upon because I dared put my opinion on the internets and dared disagree in small way with the OP. That's how this dance plays out.