Reply #58: 'cause it's just another guise to hide behind privilege and control

[NuttyFluffers]

if it just was concern about racial stereotypes it wouldn't be dragged into some spastic hissy fit. properly done there'd be a stern comment and head shaking and then leave it to the targeted community to further respond, and this after noticing how the targeted community reacts to the piece in the first place. sometimes the targeted community completely gets the comment and didn't see some obscure tortured reference embedded within. yet far too often, as i've seen it, there's the privilege group getting all in a huff of self-righteous outrage in proxy for the targeted group. it seems like an oblique means to control the social environment around them, like it's their burden to determine who is offended, by what, and how. this assumes a great deal (knowing how a whole community might feel), and only a person in a position of assumed privilege would effortlessly go there. and to get whipped up into a self-righteous rage controls the dialogue even before the targeted group even gets a chance to say anything; this frames the argument into something the said group may or may not find important.

basically, it's hubris in assuming you know what's best for others and how others should feel, on both the powered and powerless sides. only a person mindlessly entrenched in the power structure could so blithely fall into that ego trap and call it righteousness. that's where the problem is.