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[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (171 children)

Funny, but what does the skin color have to do with the situation?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (41 children)

It's not obvious? Because white males as a demographic are the most privileged people on the planet and not coincidentally also the ones most prone to petty, oblivious arrogance, tantrum-throwing, and egotistical man-splaining. The latter was demonstrated by the one in this NASA scientist's anecdote.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (40 children)

This robs people of their individual context. The UK Prime Ministers wife is Indian and astonishingly privileged. You are suggesting a poor mine worker from Romania is somehow more privileged based on how he looks.

Lumping people into loose categories (particularly based on skin colour) and then prescribing loose values to them is fascist and racist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Not the "I know of this one poc that's in a position of power and so white privilege doesn't exist" argument lol

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