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Originally Posted by Versus
So what you're really saying is "Tell me what you think hurt you so that I can determine whether it hurt you or not."
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Skippy, how are you going to do that? Seriously. Tell me. Because you. Are. Not. Me. You don't feel what I feel. Something that is not hurtful to you is not necessarily harmless to everyone. That is a privilege. I understand that you're unfamiliar with this and I'm telling you that it's okay. We get it. We've been there.
But dude. A simple "I don't know what I said but I can see that it really bothers you!" would go a long fucking way. Just a brief fucking acknowledgement that I am legitimately upset. Not a rationalization that I'm making shit up or twisting shit because I'm out to get you or obviously seeing shit that isn't there. I mean come the fuck on.
Do you understand that I and many people here live with always having to justify and prove our pain to people who refuse to listen? Does that even register as a fucking blip to you? It's fucking frustrating beyond explanation and most of the time I can't even express it this well through all the fucking red that I see. |
This is what you tried to twist my words into...."The reason I said race should be a moot point is because I don't understand how it makes a difference in how we as a white people expect to be interacted with.
But as we see it does.
The assumption that I can contribute to any conversation based solely on my spot in status quo and the resultant reaction that I am being victimized when people won't put up with it says that I am a strait white male because that is level of privilege that I have put on display here in this thread."
The whole issue of "White privilege" is a construct of racism, it was originally used by racists to benefit members of said group but in this day and age it is used by racists to silence or devalue those with white skin.
That's why no one gave a second thought to somebody calling me a "cracker" and why it is easy for others to be racist about whites and claim that such is not a "thing"