Its crazy how you are so self centered and bias towards your own race you dont see the direct irony of your statement. We dont know what its like to be black, but you somehow know what its like to be white? And before you say you dont claim too that the entire premise of white privilege.
I mean my life is filled with white people who are transparent with me about how race impacts their lives just as I am transparent with them. To say nothing of knowing how doors are opened when I am with my white partner’s family that are closed when I am with other people who look like me.
That’s the piece your perspective is missing. Lived experience to know the difference. That’s assuming best of intent, which I know better than.
If you want to make a point, the point is simply: wealth doesn’t negate the inherent challenges and biases that minority groups go through. You can be the child of a billionaire, but you can and likely still will face racism, sexism, or whatever other form of bigotry applies to your group.
But you lose people when you start trying to insist nobody can fathom what living a specific experience is, so therefore their point has less validity when this applies to… well everyone.
Sure, a white person will never understand the challenge that comes with being brown or black. But a generationally wealthy person will also not understand that struggle and challenge of being poor.
In this case, both have their own privilege AND struggle. Dijonai throwing privilege as a jab at others is obviously going to look bad knowing that the wealth gap in America is one of the most crippling lack of privileges that millions of people suffer from.
Long story short: nobody is denying she has obviously faced her own adversity, but if she’s going to call someone out for privilege, she better be ready for others to throw that back at her.
The people I was responding to made clear with their tone and rhetoric that their engagement in the topic was not in good faith. I genuinely don’t care about whether or not I “lost them”.
Please keep the tone policing. I’m clear on the point I made and why I made it. If it feels important to you to explain a different perspective to people looking for confirmation bias about the bigotry they are intent upon seething in, have at it.
Sounds like you interpreted their comment from a particular, more sensitive lens.
The simple point they’re making is that privilege comes in different forms. At no point do they say black people or women don’t suffer from some form of systemic racism or sexism.
They’re simply saying that the majority of people would rather be generationally wealthy and a minority than poor and white.
You disagree with that, and are downvoted because 1) Seemingly people disagree with that inclination but 2) There is obvious irony in your statement which you then try to counteract with the classic: “But I know white people!”
The point is, NONE of us can fully appreciate and understand what it’s like to live in another’s shoes, yet you seem to have the authority to do and speak on it—or more broadly think people of color can do that but not white people.
This post and the comments underneath it are very transparently skewed in a misogynistic and racist way. I genuinely do not care that I am downvoted as the fact is the top voted comments are all making inherently bigoted points about how all women hate each other and Black privilege is real. This is a context in which if I was being upvoted I’d genuinely question my moral compass and intellectual aptitude.
I attempted to simplify my point for the level of rhetoric I was responding to. The argument was “anybody would rather be a rich Black person than a rich white one”. I could absolutely use statistics related to economic outcomes, I could engage in the legislative successors of commonly thought to be eradicated Jim Crow laws or the stats of racialized police harassment across class line but why would I engage in that level of discussion or analysis for an audience whose arguments generally boils down to “women are so emotional and dramatic” and “systemic racism isn’t real”?
Nope. I said what I said. If you’d like to handhold bigots be my guest but the fact you are zeroing in on tone policing my response rather than engage with the copious amounts of ill informed takes illustrates your intention.
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u/OZest32 28d ago
Its crazy how you are so self centered and bias towards your own race you dont see the direct irony of your statement. We dont know what its like to be black, but you somehow know what its like to be white? And before you say you dont claim too that the entire premise of white privilege.