Sansa Stark

Lmao why is recognising your privilege a bad thing? I find it truly disgusting anyone should whinge THIS ****ing hard about it. It matters because white women aren't the only ****ing women and if you only care about the issues of white, able bodied, cisgendered women YOU ARE NOT A FEMINIST. You don't just ignore things like this just because you feel "guilty" cry me a ****ing river. It's not about you so guilt is such an inappropriate term because it's not about YOU, it's about realising that you benefit from the oppression of others and I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone can reach adulthood with this kind of ostrich behaviour. It's repulsive, if you are a feminist you shouldn't be so thick as to not understand what intersectionality is.

butthead aka 216

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CoolBec

Couldn't agree more!

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butthead aka 216

of course i agree thats its impossible to succeed without one. i just told you my personal experience about it. its still a problem especially in the black community though. i spoke before of that problem. black men have kids, go to jail, come back with prison mentality or dont come back at all, no guidance given, cycle repeats etc. my point was more about not havin positive male role models which includes fathers who are present but bad parents

CoolBec

^ Sounds more like an indictment of bad parenting than single or same sex parenting.

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butthead aka 216

well yea kinda, i mean if there was a choice of havin 2 good parents or 1 good parent in a childs life, what would we all choose??

im sayin that 2 parent households are a lot more rare in black households than white ones and that is an issue in my opinion. im nto sayin its ompossible to succeed with one parent, i just said that ive done it personally. its undoubtedly harder to grow up as a male without a male role model in the house tho

Sansa Stark

Single mom haters are fucking gross lmao

butthead aka 216

agree

not sure there are really ppl who hold those thoughts tho

John Wilkes Booth

What are your thoughts as to why our political and business elite is comprised primarily of straight white males despite that demographic being a minority in the common population? Is it simply that every other demographic is lazy, or what? I think there's a certain amount of networking that goes into it, and like you said 'people of different backgrounds tend to stick together.' How that doesn't translate to privilege is beyond me.

As for the 'ghetto' culture, for lack of a better term, I agree based on personal experience that it is a negative influence. Not just on black people, but on people of different races who are young and poor and buy into that mentality.

But I also think the media has amplified the message that black culture is basically ghetto culture (baggy pants, hip hop, etc) and that ghetto culture is associated with crime. They do this through multiple mediums and directed at multiple demographics: through the news, through music, movies, etc.

In most people who adopt the mentality this only really manifests in a certain style of dress and a certain type of attitude. I believe most people who dress or act this way aren't actual serious criminals. But they might take part in petty crime like smoking or selling small quantities of weed, petty theft and **** like that. And statistically speaking they are more likely to be targeted by the police, especially if they're black, and given a harsher sentence once convicted.

This in itself can increase the potential that they might become a more serious criminal. If you have a record you are going to have a harder time getting employed. If you are sent to jail you will have an easier time networking with more serious criminals which opens up new opportunities to make money.

Disclaimer: this is basically just my subjective perception of the issue. I'm white and male. My privilege has the 'check for updates automatically' feature turned on so I should be good to go.

CoolBec

Where'd that statistic come from?!

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