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In reply to the discussion: Yes, I am a Feminist. Deal. With. It. [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)"Otherwise you'll just look like a complete fucking asshole when you write a hypocritical article completely missing the point of everything."
And the kindergarten example is kinda missing the point, twice.
Point 1 - most people have two legs. To say that such people have "two leg privilege" is to look at things from the perspective of the very few who do NOT have two legs. But why should the perspective of 0.3% of the population be more valid than the perspective of 99.7%?
Further, since most people you actually WILL be competing against ALSO have two legs, the real world value of supposed two leg privilege is very close to zero.
Point two - the disparity between white/POC and male/female is not nearly as large OR as clear cut as the difference between two legs and one leg.
And the author seems to jump right over that "If our two legged man is black and our one legged man is white, he's still got white privilege."
Telling a one legged man how he's playing life on the easiest possible setting because he's a white male is gonna be insulting. Imagine visiting a while male in the emergency room, pulling up a chair and saying "let me tell you about your white male privileges".
Do you really want to make that argument to somebody who is in that state?
Yet that is where we are with this privilege notion. It's a notion that allows some people to be "victims" and it allows upper class white people to look down at working class and say "look at those ignorant bigots who won't admit or realize how privileged they are".
Except they might not be kind enough to just call them "ignorant bigots". Instead they might use a bigger gun. I dunno, maybe "hypocritical complete fu$%ing a$$hole".
But, unlike me, a guy going to Princeton clearly does have privileges. They just don't come from his whiteness or maleness as much from his wealthiness.