People seem to really struggle to reason about the fact that the same person can be both privileged and oppressed without these things in any way cancelling out. If they're ingroup, people ignore that they're privileged, if they're outgroup people ignore that they're oppressed.
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i think american-centric is a better term people who say stuff like ‘only white people can be racist’ are at best, generalizing based on the history of race relations in america you couldn’t say that if you were from e.g. china or rwanda
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Maybe we should tell people trying to project their extremely US-centric ideas of how the world works on to the rest of the internet to check their US privilege.
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