Of course you aren't
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ForeverBlue92
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Except a working class majority voting Tory.
Wake up ffs the left are finished until they pull their self righteous heads out their asses.
dead_soft
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Which politicians on the left do you specifically blame for this?
As for this, I'd simply use "racial injustice".
Highlights how ethnic minorities are on a lower rung and that needs rectifying, but doesn't state that whites are "privileged" to be on the higher rung in the first instance. Everyone should be on the higher rung.
For me it's like calling "racial equality" "white levelling" or something - would be stupid.
dead_soft
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Ignoring the semantics of it - do you think white people escape certain prejudices by the colour of their skin?
Scabs all over the show these days. Despicable.
You talk like this is a new way of thinking (it most likely is for you), but the rhetoric you are using has been used before. It's an old playbook based around protecting the status quo, your nonsense puts me in mind of Governor Maddox and his ilk from the 70's.
Like a mason's lodge in here these days
I answered that quite clearly here.
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You do have advantage. That advantage might be mitigated by mental health, or body dysmorphia, or your race. But the ‘whiteness’ isn’t the thing that’s causing the issues. No one would say that because it’s a horrific disease that confers no privilege and is a, quite frankly stupid, comparison...
In every post actually I think. I state clearly here "that's what it is"
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Bet like saying its ok for a nonce to babysit the kids as long as he doesn't stick his cock in them. No it's not? That's a terrible comparison.
For the avoidance of doubt, yes, of course they do.
My point isn't that it's wrong; it's that as a term it's not helpful and could be far, far better constructed so as to not alienate.
If you thought in terms of the point of a cause - to win hearts and minds and change society from what it is to what it could be - I'm sure you'd get what I'm saying.
dead_soft
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I answered that quite clearly here.
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You do have advantage. That advantage might be mitigated by mental health, or body dysmorphia, or your race. But the ‘whiteness’ isn’t the thing that’s causing the issues. No one would say that because it’s a horrific disease that confers no privilege and is a, quite frankly stupid, comparison...www.grandoldteam.com
In every post actually I think. I state clearly here "that's what it is"
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Bet like saying its ok for a nonce to babysit the kids as long as he doesn't stick his cock in them. No it's not? That's a terrible comparison.
For the avoidance of doubt, yes, of course they do.
My point isn't that it's wrong; it's that as a term it's not helpful and could be far, far better constructed so as to not alienate.
If you thought in terms of the point of a cause - to win hearts and minds and change society from what it is to what it could be - I'm sure you'd get what I'm saying.
So you agree that the term white privilege refers to something real and you can understand it.
Who exactly do you think you would be protecting or saving from misunderstanding by changing the phrasing? Who is it that doesn’t understand it?
So I can work out who can’t understand it and so I alienated by it
Have a 'Should the Twelfth marches be uncanceled' thread next week
This is exactly why I put in the last sentence of the previous post, because you aren't thinking about this the right way. You really do think of things in black and white - no pun intended. No offence intended really either, but it's true.
The people who don't understand it or understand it but don't relate to it are millions of people in society whose minds you need to change to achieve societal change in terms of racial equality.
If a term throws up barriers to people understanding racial injustice (see the term works) then it's not helpful. You can't just blame people for not understanding "white privilege" and say the problem is all on them, because you ultimately achieve nothing in terms of the actual cause. If the phrase isn't working, don't use it, change it.
It's basically a propaganda war mate. Not everyone who is against BLM is a bunch of mindless Geordie nationalist drunks. There's a load of people who are simply ambivelent and need coaxing. Telling them they have "white privilege" is going to be met with blank looks from a hell of a lot of people who don't identify their lives with the word "privilege" in any way, shape or form.
tsubaki
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now? that was weeks ago
The fact is the term is *meant* to be uncomfortable. It’s reality. It’s correct in the literal sense of the word. It might be hard to stomach and it might make people uncomfortable but that’s the reality of it all.
it’s not meant to serve a purpose. It’s to describe a reality. You can call it white marshmallow if you like, it doesn’t change the reality of things.
and my view is that if people are put off by the *word* then they are never going to have the stomach to actually *be* anti racist. Because equality is going to mean sacrifice with little or no reward other than it being the right thing to do. That’s going to be difficult for some people to either fathom. The terminology is irrelevant.
neil999
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Labour don’t need to win back the racist vote thanks
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