1/Men tend to be more systems-oriented, women more social-oriented. This is very general, and useful for understanding large populations. While it's fine to make general assumptions about people early on, the issue is when general information supersedes individual information.
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The issue I have with the "white privilege" concept is that it is race specific when it doesn't need to be. You can talk about the exact same issues by saying "majority privilege".
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I... think I disagree? I would agree that we can talk about different types of majority privilege, but having a phrase that refers specifically to white privilege seems also useful. Do you have an example of non-white-specific-but-rather-majority-based-privilege?
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I find family systems theory to be a nice way of synthesizing systems and relationship povs.
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I think because it's often used in the wrong context or frame. Very often *individuals* are referred to through a group lens; this causes pushback in the same way saying "you, woman, are social and emotional because you're a woman" - and rightly so!
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as someone who was once upon a time a poor white opiate addict; I can tell you the white part of that description kept me out of a lot of very deserved trouble on many occasions.
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Too many people see privilege through the lens of the elite (any background) instead of as it is. A wheelchair reliant person in a city with copious ADA infrastructure has privilege but not like walking people have everywhere. Being white in America is its own kind of passport.
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Consistency is the real problem. Or lack thereof. Many actors will exclaim general white privilege is just "woke" rhetoric, but then suddenly find an affinity for "truth" when pointing out higher crime rates in minority populations.1/
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And of course people who claim many institutions are racist for favoring whites w/ their hiring practices have no problem openly favoring non-whites. 2/
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This self-contradiction drives a great deal of the conflict. Possibly even most. Until such contradictions are acknowledged and tackled, these discussions will remain at an impasse. End/
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