• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It largely concerns all of those things, but it’s not as bipolar as american identity politics makes it up to be

    Then why are you continuing to argue that it IS bipolar? Why do you insist that white people aren’t privileged, even as you acknowledge that there are different levels of privilege and belonging to one privileged class doesn’t mean that you belong to them all and thus have ALL the privilege? It’s like you’re ALMOST getting it but then you refuse to take that last step because that would be admitting that you were wrong.

    Fact: being white makes us privileged

    Fact: that doesn’t mean that we necessarily abuse said privilege and as such, being white doesn’t in itself make us bad people

    Fact: neither of the above statements of fact are in any way discriminatory and if you STILL don’t understand that, there’s no doubt left that you’re incapable of understanding either through stubbornness or reflexive defensiveness against an imagined accusation that nobody is making.