I'm notice that difficulty of grasping this obstructs understanding. 'White privilege' doesn't mean you have no struggles in life. Everyone does! It just means that being white is not the reason for them; while non-white people have extra struggles *because* they are *not* white.https://twitter.com/Xristos_Protos/status/1152618370086424577 …
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Boiling down to a very simple example: If a person says a sexist thing and others try to think of how it can be charitably interpreted, that's privilege. It's the system trying to create a space for which sexist views can be seen as, e.g., "oh, OK, just another slip, oopps".
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And that then creates a playing field in which women who are most harmed by these views have less or no charity extended to them in general and in life but those who promote these "edgy" views have others doing labour for them to allow their continued expression.
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This is why I am uncomfortable in the idea of promoting charitable interpretations across the board, without deep thought — because as with anything social it will advantage certain people over others.
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