Reply #31: Actually, I really don't have any guilt at all. And I agree, the proletariat needs to come together. [View All]

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I'm just looking at things realistically. Frankly, my whiteness doesn't buy me much. Whiteness itself doesn't buy much. That's the big stinking lie the capitalist slave traders told the immigrant masses. Where I see the 'guilt' and, frankly, the racism is the attempt to make people hallowed victims beyond reproach. "Tut tut! African-Americans are a wounded and benevolent people and wise and childlike, they'd never harm gays if they didn't deserve it." (The whole "magical negro" concept.) "Gays are urban and educated. They could never be racist or classist."

Talking about relative privileges instead of rivaling oppressions and building "hierarchies of damage" is a way that we can begin to tackle the real problem: the owner. But it my opinion, it ain't gonna come together until we take responsibility, talk honestly, and listen to one another. If we can't take these relatively small criticisms of how we've used one another, we'll never come together to tackle "the great users."