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To: Rurudyne

Black privilege means nobody cares when white people are killed by police or black men because they deserved it.


14 posted on 05/26/2020 7:09:06 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Skywise

Yes and no (see the bit at the end).

Black privilege does not extend to black victims of black perpetrators.

What we call Black Privilege, insofar as it relates to harm done to any black persons by non-black persons, is really a wedge used to support the narrative that blacks, as a collective entity, an abstraction of persons, are oppressed and hated, that injuries to some, even those long dead, are by means of it transmitted to others by the proxy of their race even though they may have never suffered themselves.

The narrative artificially erases the distinction between being affected and being afflicted.

And this narrative is so vital to those who trade in it they can latch onto anything that supports it, ignoring what doesn’t.

Make no mistake, I’m not saying this guy was somehow in the wrong rather than having been wronged ... I don’t know that and I wouldn’t assume that ... but only talking about something that ultimately will reduce his real circumstances to be incidental — he and his death will be used by them no matter the truth. His Black Privilege is that the race pimps can use him no matter what he might have thought too.

Ironically, I would consider not being so usable to some race narrative as a white person to actually be a “privilege” of sorts. Nobody particularly cares about what happens to me because I’m white, no one can pimp for their purposes anything that happens to me either.


106 posted on 05/26/2020 9:02:07 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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