ext_22705 ([identity profile] derek-bliss.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] silverthorne 2007-03-25 06:18 pm (UTC)

'White Privilege'.

The term hinges on being born white, and therefore assumed to automatically have privileges other races don't in regards to safety, voting rights, fear or lack thereof and other advantages.

It also automatically negates your right to point out it's a race-based term if you happen to be white. Because that's autmotically taken as a refusal to accept responsibility for the damage your race has done to other races over the course of history.

Even if you do acknowledge that things have got to change, and treating anyone in certain ways based on the color of their skin is dead wrong.

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