@Recursion_Agent
There's no failure of understanding here.
It is possible to know a good bit about history and reject your self-serving doctrines. I can see how this might be confusing for the ethically groundless (who uses "empathy" to ground their ethics?)
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Self-serving? I’m white, male, affluent, able, and cisgender. I have a great deal of privilege in society which I readily acknowledge. My alliance with people less privileged than myself is counter to my own narrow self-serving interests. But it’s in accord with the greater good.
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Replying to @hyloguy @Suppose_Not and
"I'm white".pic.twitter.com/5h84Gi8DCd
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Replying to @CanadaNRx @Suppose_Not and
And your point is? Are you saying that being Jewish and gay makes me not white? Well, anti-semites and white supremacists might see it that way. But I still benefit a great deal from white privilege. At least until they start rounding up the gays and the Jews (again).
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Replying to @hyloguy @Suppose_Not and
You act like this and yet you wonder why antisemitism exists. Is it punching up for whites to make fun of Jewish people? After all, Jews have a higher average income and are more likely to have a college degree than whites are, among other things.
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Replying to @CanadaNRx @hyloguy and
I think the logic goes thusly: everyone not white is punching up, as long as you can find any metric at all wherein they are less successful; if they are more successful (Asians or say, gay men), it is still punching up.
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Replying to @Recursion_Agent @CanadaNRx and
in fact, it is only punching up where white people are involved,* so there is no reason to apply any actual logic to the situation. *Except for Mike, who is Schrodinger's punch: simultaneously a privileged oppressor and an oppressed minority!
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Replying to @Recursion_Agent @CanadaNRx and
I love the Schrödinger nod, but it's not a contradiction to say that I am privileged in some ways and not in others. Also, I never said that being a member of a privileged group automatically makes you an "oppressor." But denying privilege enables systemic oppression to continue.
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Replying to @hyloguy @Recursion_Agent and
The concept of privilege and how it relates to being Jewish is complex. Here is a nice article which explores that.http://www.mayan.org/2015/04/a-call-to-my-beloved-jews-we-gotta-talk-about-privilege/ …
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Replying to @hyloguy @Recursion_Agent and
As a gay man, it's okay for me to use the F-word with other gays, because I'm a member of the group which that word has been used to oppress. But as a white man, it is NOT okay for me to use the N-word, because I'm *not* a member of the group oppressed with *that* word.
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this is so boring forget right or wrong for a second how are you not fucking bored to the point of spontaneous prolapse writing this shit out
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