My question to you is: In any of these cases, have you done your best? In each of these cases, the common thread is that you are being infantilizing. You are not taking someone else’s reporting of their own, lived experience as accurate. As hard as it may be to accept this, you may not take these reports as accurate because other people, who look like you, have told you that these things are not true, and whether or not you want to believe it, you might have been programmed with a bias toward taking things that white men say as more accurate than things anyone else says. You might not know you’re doing this. If you really were to think about it, you’d find the idea appalling. And yet, you are not taking these reports as accurate. Why? Or, perhaps, because these things do not happen to you, you refuse to believe that it could or would happen to others. This is the essence of your privilege. salon/2014/12/09/to_my_white_male_facebook_friends/
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 03:15:18 +0000
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