JF

Why does the "calculus" in this (now-ubiquitous) study START from assumption that the level of sympathy for "impoverished whites" prior to learning about white privilege was correct? Equally valid they were being afforded an unjust amount, and privilege info fixed the imbalance

It's rather difficult to have such a convo without it becoming a "who's life is shitier debate". That debate is largely counterproductive,with rich whites like Trump laughing all the way to the bank while we have it. What's actionable? Needs to be the question of the day.

These questions are structural.

I'm so tired of this fucking dance... "A-HA! But you see X is really Y which is really structural which is really capital which is really want which is really hunger which is really reproduction which is really evolution which is really cell-division which is really..."

Marvelous, fantastic, you followed the fruit-fly footsteps all the way back to Eden and found the bare crabapple tree. Congratulations. Meanwhile, the house burns, the water stagnates, people get sick and die, we shrink further away from the stars and from a worthwhile future.