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Originally Posted by seebs
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Originally Posted by LadyShea
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A lot of the actual communication that happens, though, involves trying to shame them, and at this point we run into a problem: If you bundle all these things together at once, you end up telling people they should be ashamed of things that are completely outside their control.
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It's not about shaming though, it's about recognition so as to avoid otherign as in "Check your privilege". |
It may not have started as being about shaming, but it's absolutely used that way now. It's also a tool for shutting people up; I've repeatedly been told that I am not allowed to have an opinion on an issue due to "privilege". |
This. This, this, this.
I can't recall a single instance of having the word "privilege" hurled at me in any context that
wasn't an attempt to shut me up.
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You have white/male/cis/eats-chicken/drives-to-work-on-Tuesdays/etc Privilege!!!"
"Yeah, I'm evil...whatever...
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