I talked to @tweetertation about her upcoming book on the perils of privilege discussions:https://qz.com/901278/phoebe-maltz-bovy-and-the-perils-of-privilege-liberals-are-so-busy-confessing-and-denouncing-privilege-theyve-forgotten-to-fix-it/ …
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in the article? you felt they weren't taken seriously enough?
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Sacco tweeted something racist. That's why people complained about it. Why is it suddenly their duty to raise AIDS awareness?
@nberlat -
She did...but she's not a notable figure, and it's hard to see what good the resulting firestorm did (at leas to me.)
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(Skipping definition of what "good" is and who gets to define it.) Why are black folks expected to yield good out of the situation?
@nberlat -
well, the argument in favor of privilege call outs is that they advance the cause of social justice, right?
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Denouncing a racist statement doesn't advance the cause of social justice?
@nberlat -
I guess I just wonder if denouncing the person over and over in theway it played out ended up advancing any particular good.
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I think some people (specifically, black people) thought it was a particularly good thing to call out Sacco's racist statement.
@nberlat -
well...definitely some black people did, but there were an awful lot of white folks doing so as well...
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