#Sociology is having an amazing week revelling in Whiteness. White male Prof thinks he's exempt from White privilegehttps://twitter.com/ProfSteveFuller/status/847347731945332736 …
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and, is it me, or is the use of the phrase "suffer from 'white privilege'" obtuse? and from a sociologist, nonetheless.
#marginsci
Someone else brought this up & I've thought more of it since: "suffer from" evokes an illness he sees himself as cured/immune. He's wrong.
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YES! It's also redirecting the narrative. That a white male would be the one bearing the burden of white privilege????
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Like he is oppressed by the oppression of others at the hands of a system that is built to favor him.
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Yes - a colonialist move: the oppression is his to be bear & be freed from. He's encumbered with this privilege he says doesn't apply to him
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As you suggested earlier, perhaps it's also pathologizing 'PC culture'
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Certainly be feeds this notion. He knows better than to say this outright. He said this publicly to seek validation. Every level of wrong.
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Next question was going to be, lwhy tweet that?"
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Gingerly towards racism goes White privilege... Notice he doesn't use the terms we've been using: racism, colonialism, White supremacy.
End of conversation
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