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Lief 🗽
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« on: March 13, 2013, 02:10:25 PM »

Children should be taught about white privilege (and male privilege, etc.), but there are probably better ways to do this.
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« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2013, 01:05:59 AM »

"a series of suggestions"... chances are, most children who volunteer to wear these wristbands probably are more aware of privilege than other kids who really couldn't care less.


I think that's the whole intent, to get to the kids who sadly couldn't care less about their privilege and force them to face it.

This is a pretty weird idea though, and I'm pretty sure it goes against freedom or some patriotic sh**t like that.

How do you think some (very white) high schooler in Morgantown, West Virginia who works a minimum wage job to afford gas and insurance for his car, has an underpaid mother and an underemployed father, and whose only pathways to a middle class standard of living are risking his life bolting roofs in a coal mine or getting shipped off to some godforsaken Islamic country in hopes that if he makes it back Uncle Sam will pay for some of his schooling afterwards, is going to respond to something like this? "White privilege? What privilege?!"

He's going to be very confused when he realizes he's in Wisconsin.

Because poor, disadvantaged white people don't exist in Wisconsin? Stuff like this is part of the reason so many of them don't vote for you anymore.

Being poor doesn't make a white person's skin color (and the benefits and advantages that come along with it) disappear.
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