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A kind of privilege:
What is white privilege?
This thread gives me hope. :)
(Apologies, but I don't want to cut this. I think this is important enough to break a few flist layouts.)
What is white privilege?
The hot chick analogy
Occasionally when I try to explain white privilege to people who seem to want to get it but seriously cannot, I use the hot chick example.
Basically, I tell people to think of a hot chick. Like model, you could probably be on TV you are so hot, hot chick. This chick could be broke as heck, living in crap, but because they're hot, they have the opportunity to make a lot of money, and they're quite likely to get hired just off of being hot (which studies have proven).
Even going down into the more mundane parts; being hot means you see other hot people in the news, on TV, being successful, other people are instantly attracted to you because you and others who look like you are called beautiful and are everywhere. You have a large romantic selection because you are considered desirable and seen as desirable, and there's also the "hot chick cost", where people are more willing to spend more time and money on you for the chance to be associated with you.
--bygisei_nashi_ni, here
This thread gives me hope. :)
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(does the 3 billion include people who are illiterate in English, though? I just. I know this is derailing, but really. there should be like a thousand versions of this poster to splash all over the different language spaces of the internets.)
also! white privilege is such an inaccessible concept to me. :| i think you will find Singapore quite interesting, in terms of our racial politics. racism is basically the same at its root, but it's got a different historical context from white privilege. I think.
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(aha I was actually wondering that too, re: English. I don't think it does, because otherwise it would have 3.7 billion people speaking/reading English, and I don't think that's anywhere near true. I guess it's just trying to say there are 3 billion people who are illiterate in any language.)
I was also telling Louise that I doubly liked the graphic because it was aesthetically pleasing...
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Also, I'd like to add to the ragey mcrage discrimination privilege thing because I thought you might find this interesting and I'd like to hear your take on it :) There's a preacher, I think his name is Terry Jones. This year, on 9/11, he's advocating an International Burn A Qur'an Day.
Okay obviously I am mad about this because I'm a Muslim myself, but really. How hateful can people get?
I ended up concluding that the only person with every advantage in America is a white, Christian, heterosexual, able young man. Anything else ends up being subject to some discrimination, invisible or visible.
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aldkghf there are so many fundamentalists who believe such horrible things that make me gape in disbelief at how vile humanity can be. I hate that the extreme sects are the most vocal of the group, the ones getting the most attention, and so people associate the broader thing (be it religion or politics or what-have-you) with those extremists, who do not represent most of the people. Fucking humanity sometimes, really.
You forgot being at least middle class and fairly well-educated!
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