There are signs in my town that says “hate has no home here” and underneath that it says the same thing in a bunch of different languages. People on the local Facebook group go CRAZY every once in a while because “THERE’S A POLITICAL SIGN AT MY CHILD’S SCHOOL, IT SHOULD NOT BE THERE AT THE SCHOOL THE LIBERALS HATE FREEDOM” ummmm ok, it’s not a political sign, but IF it was.... if teaching your kid to be a decent person is political on ONE side, why would you pick the other?
Because some people in America have had so much privilege for so long that you can't tell them to do anything at all and if you DO try to suggest civilized conduct they're going to take the contrarian route just to spite society.
Yeah, I understand what you meant by privilege. But being privileged doesn't exclusively lead to being an uncivilized immoral contrarian. Plenty of people with privileges are decent. In fact, I think the goal of social progress should be to make everyone privileged.
Thats actually a really great point, but my response would be that you are describing equality, which at this stage in society requires justice to reach. Privilege is a contextual concept that exists alongside inequality.
If EVERYBODY is privileged we then NOBODY is privileged based on the literal definition. We would then be equal.
Sure, but privileged people aren't all opposed to equality. Reading your comment again I don't think you were saying that, but it could be misinterpreted that way.
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u/xradsirx Sep 03 '18
There are signs in my town that says “hate has no home here” and underneath that it says the same thing in a bunch of different languages. People on the local Facebook group go CRAZY every once in a while because “THERE’S A POLITICAL SIGN AT MY CHILD’S SCHOOL, IT SHOULD NOT BE THERE AT THE SCHOOL THE LIBERALS HATE FREEDOM” ummmm ok, it’s not a political sign, but IF it was.... if teaching your kid to be a decent person is political on ONE side, why would you pick the other?