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In reply to the discussion: It's getting weird here....white privilege....rape threads a month ago....it seems a bit much [View all]Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)...does not equate to not caring about the experiences of people of color and women.
Some of us understand the concept of white privilege (and have for freaking decades now), but don't find it an especially fruitful means of advancing the struggle for racial and social justice. It generally seems to me to be the domain of quite privileged white student activists and a certain ultra political set.
You see the controversy it creates here, a progressive, avowedly pro-Democratic Party discussion board. How does it play in Peoria?
I follow real world policy that often intersects with race. I see real struggles and, sometimes, real progress being made, as in federal sentencing reform laws that will disproportionately benefit black people because they got disproportionately screwed by them in the first place and the court-ordered end to racially biased stop-and-frisks in New York City, for example. Discussions of white privilege weren't part of the discourse. They weren't necessary. Everybody got it.
We can burn up the discussion boards talking white privilege all we want; meanwhile, real things are going on.