History of Feminism
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(37,573 posts)to me, to be about "social justice" one would have a concern for all of those who lack privilege.
We do not generally hear that concern from feminists. Instead we head about "male privilege" as if all men have privilege and all women lack it.
Consider the distribution of wealth. In 2002, 34 million households had almost no wealth, less than $10,000 in net worth.
Now, if a person was concerned with "social justice" in general, then the goal would be to lift ALL of those 34 million out of poverty.
If, however, one is "only" concerned with "racial discrimination" then one would focus on the fact that an absurd 48.4% of black households have less than $5,000 in net worth. Whereas a "mere" 20.3% of white-non-hispanic households are in such a boat.
Now, I am NOT saying it would be a bad thing to be part of an organization dedicated to raising those black households out of poverty. That is a noble goal.
However, one could not honestly claim that such an organization was doing much of anything for the 16.6 million WNH households with less than $5,000 in net worth.
Further, if the organization dedicated to ending black poverty was going around constantly saying "white people suck" it would be even less honest to say they had any concern for the WNH who are living in poverty.