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« on: January 12, 2015, 12:48:15 PM » |
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I'm white, male, and American. That obviously means that capitalism privileges me in certain ways that it doesn't people of color and women, and I'm aware of that. But I also work two jobs, make less than $25K a year, and spend literally every dollar I make in order to survive, so you'll forgive me if I have a problem with all this liberal 'privilege theory' bullsh**t. Capitalism obviously colors our experience of it based on where we are within the overall society (and for a good reason - workers are told to hate one another based on their race, to degrade women, to be homophobic, to hate transgendered people, etc) and there are special oppressions faced by particular groups of people that have to be rooted out and destroyed, but they cannot be destroyed by 'privilege checking' or individual behavior adjustment. They can only be destroyed by destroying the root cause of them all, which is, of course, class society.
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