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Killerhurtz  ·  3390 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When White Poets Pretend to be Asian

Except human beings is too wide.

Reminder, it's also human beings who you claim have the privilege. It's human beings who are "putting you down". It's human beings that are insulting you.

We ALL are human beings. From assholes to saints, from the whitest white man to the darkest person of color. To the most masculine man to the most feminine woman, and from the most feminine man to the most masculine woman. We all bleed the same blood, breathe the same air, bask in the warmth of the same sun.

"A person who fights for the visibility of minorities and their "privilege"" is too much of a handful. It's a good way to stop being talked about if people have to remember that much. Name another group that has done any form of change with a name that long.

And as for that quote? I used privilege in that way because guess what? It's a privilege that you have an internet connection to complain about your status. It's a privilege to be even ABLE to worry about such thing instead of worrying about food.

What you're looking for is not privilege. Privilege is a word tumblrites and other socially inept people use to describe how "unfair" everything is. The word you are looking for is "advantages", "rights", "recognition".

Most white people are actually on YOUR side. Hell - most white men are. That is until you demonize them. No positive change has occurred by shunning people and painting them as devils. Assholes comes in all shapes, colors, genders and identities. So do allies - try to find them. IT IS a very important fight you're fighting - so fight it right, and fight it for everyone.

I don't mean to patronize or insult you. However, Hubski is a place of discussion - I disagree with your methods, at the moment, and so I seek to either make you understand my point of view or make you understand mine. Though I will be the first to admit I do not filter anything at all - I feel it is against the concept of discussion, because it prevents the hard questions from being asked.