Ate you trying to say that every white person is privileged or are you trying to say that other factors cannot outweigh that privilege such that it is a net negative to the participant?
There’s a difference between possibility and probability.
If you are white, it is probable that you have gained unearned advantages from the circumstances of your birth. It is possible that you have not.
If someone can’t admit to the truth of both the above statements, that person is a bigot. Full stop! There is no such thing as “reverse” racism, there are only degrees and flavors of racism.
Similarly, if someone tells you your tone is preventing you from being heard or taken seriously, there is some probability that they are sharing an important truth you should listen to. There is also some probability that they are just trying to shut you down, to de-legitimize your points. Either of these things is possible.
If one behaves as if a probable thing is the only possible thing, one will almost certainly offend others due to the inevitable collision of categorical judgements with individual realities.
Was that clearer?
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Someone needs to sit Beschizza down and force him to read this comic.
The tone police should be imprisoned in safe spaces whose doors are then chained shut before they are razed to the ground.
I’m trying to say that @ActionAbe used the word “privilege” to mean freedom from systemic discrimination by belonging to the majority demographic. He didn’t mean it in terms of financial success or upbringing.
White Americans, as a group, are not discriminated against systematically for being white in America. They may experience discrimination for other reasons, but not because of their race. I can’t say whether or not that discrimination is worse than racial discrimination.
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I see you take offense at hypothetical questions. Might want to have that looked at.
Yes, it’s clearer, and I agree, if you define privilege in terms of unearned advantage rather than freedom from unearned disadvantage. Otherwise, the waters start to muddy a little bit.
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Yes, because i can prove my case. No because i’m not a mental health expert, but i could do a better job than most who are not and some who are.
Surely you can’t believe that all emotional reactions are equally in balance, equally well motivated, or equally effective toward larger goals.
It doesn’t matter whether rich or poor, male or female, black or white; a person who is comfortable in the position they’re in is a privileged person.
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Or uncomfortable myths. Whichever.
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I don’t like your tone. You need to stop.
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I can tell which, and if I can’t, I’ll find out. My discomfort can wait.
That’s meta right there.
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The discussion is about the societal privilege granted to certain people based on race, gender, background, etc.
The difference between that and the “privilege” you’re talking about is the difference between apples and pineapples.
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What if the fitness function you use to separate truth from “non truth” reflects heteronormativity and phallogocentrism?
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The only issue I take is that the comic suggests that closing the lines of communication is a good thing - no not every discussion about a topic needs a solution (one side “wins”), but it needs a resolution (both sides walk away fulfilled in some fashion). If there is no resolution than it is toxic and you have been wasting your time entirely.
So yes, you can engage conversation any way you want and others are being assholes by correcting how not WASPy your speech patterns are - but just yelling into the void isn’t going to help anyone.
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It’s not a classifier itself, but a genetic algorithm that evolves to generate new classifiers.
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I hope the irony of a comic telling you to shut up and listen is not lost on everyone.
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My Dad is a pretty awesome dude but as adult-child-of-alcoholic he has the emotional bandwidth of a chemical laser. There must be one and only one emotion in the room at a time namely, his. Don’t be happy if he’s worried, don’t have a disagreement with a sibling if he’s in earshot, etc. Now he’s mostly a pretty friendly guy and so most of the time it’s fine – not least that I’m now 46 – but as a kid–before I could ever articulate this–it could get mighty stifling, to say the least.
I couldn’t much imagine folks experiencing that society-wide, so I’ll do more to give folks even wider berth. I still think, though, it helps to get emotions to the side if you mean to solve a problem, but everyone needs to be heard out – emotions, warts and all.
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- Walk away as not worth your trouble to spend time on
You’re not a hostage to every discussion or argument. You can choose to walk away as it not being an issue worth your time in this life or even at this moment.
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