I think much of the time that people who write about privilege misdiagnose what the problem is. The problem isn’t primarily that cops treat black people badly and treat white people pretty well; it’s that they treat black people badly. If they treated everyone equally badly, that wouldn’t be an improvement. If everyone distrusted everyone the way they tend to distrust young black men, that would end privilege, but that wouldn’t make the world better. Very, very well said. This very nicely sums up the problem I have with the idea of privilege. Privilege is simply not the problem, so talking about it seems vapid and self-serving to me.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:46:17 +0000
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