Um ... what? Where did I ever say that? Please note: I am close enough to white for the distinction not to matter in the context of this discussion, so it would be downright nonsensical for me to say such a thing.
By "privileged" I mean this (http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html). One can also refer to other forms of privilege, e.g. male privilege, class privilege, etc. Having privilege in this context does not mean that the privileged person is on easy street, but that of two otherwise identical people, one privileged and one not, the privileged person is likely to have had an easier time of it in our society. Maybe a small difference, maybe a large.
Wait, I didn't blame minorities for that book. I didn't actually *blame* a specific person for that book... / Actually, I don't feel threatened.
Sorry, but that's how you're coming across by directing your ire and frustration at those ____ people who shirked at work and didn't get punished for it rather than discussing, first and foremost, the confused and ignorant bureaucrats who let them shirk and who tossed that manual at you.
Anyway...yeah. I see your point, and it's exactly the one I see whether I say anything or watch people just toss all of this about.
Has it occurred to you that maybe this is because you
What I feel is sad, because what is getting thrown at me at this point is the same shit that my ancestors (them, not me), threw at others.
Okay, we're done. That you could actually compare this discussion to historical acts of hatred and violence with an apparently straight face shows that we have nothing more to say to each other.
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Date: 2007-03-24 02:58 am (UTC)By "privileged" I mean this (http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html). One can also refer to other forms of privilege, e.g. male privilege, class privilege, etc. Having privilege in this context does not mean that the privileged person is on easy street, but that of two otherwise identical people, one privileged and one not, the privileged person is likely to have had an easier time of it in our society. Maybe a small difference, maybe a large.
Wait, I didn't blame minorities for that book. I didn't actually *blame* a specific person for that book... / Actually, I don't feel threatened.
Sorry, but that's how you're coming across by directing your ire and frustration at those ____ people who shirked at work and didn't get punished for it rather than discussing, first and foremost, the confused and ignorant bureaucrats who let them shirk and who tossed that manual at you.
Anyway...yeah. I see your point, and it's exactly the one I see whether I say anything or watch people just toss all of this about.
Has it occurred to you that maybe this is because you
What I feel is sad, because what is getting thrown at me at this point is the same shit that my ancestors (them, not me), threw at others.
Okay, we're done. That you could actually compare this discussion to historical acts of hatred and violence with an apparently straight face shows that we have nothing more to say to each other.