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In reply to the discussion: Tackling Asian Privilege [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)And how things are discussed.
Which if you have read the many threads on it here you will see that is what many people have been trying to discuss.
White privilege does exist. So do many other types of privilege. Great. Now what?
The biggest one of all is wealth/power. And that varies by race all over the world.
So why focus on the race aspect at all? The few, the one percent, are the driving forces behind just about every type of oppression out there. The people upset at this article/satire because it mentions race don't seem to care when one other race is mentioned within the same type of discussion.
We are liberals, democrats, progressives here. We get that many people have been (and are) screwed over by people in power - which is why we don't belong to a party that doesn't see or care about that.
But some folks keep wanting to take the discussion not only to one race but to do so with the thought that many posters here are themselves are a part of the problem and don't care. Which is judging them using only one yard stick (how they reply to one topic).
This isn't so much about the topic, it is about the discussion of the topic and the goals of said discussion.