I’m white myself and was just listing slurs I’ve personally heard. Peckerwood, whitey and white trash are all considered pretty offensive where I’m from. The words may look a bit silly when they’re typed out but you’re missing the contempt and hatred that comes along with it when someone looks you dead in the eyes and calls you a slur.

The point is that they reduce you to a single feature, and display a clear disregard for your personhood. Perhaps being entirely unaffected by slurs is a bit of white privilege I’ve never felt and they genuinely don’t bother most people but idk

Oh I thought it was about saltines. White crackers that are bland and of little use on their own; bland and only useful to support things with more flavour.

I was sitting there after posting that, thinking to myself that this was definitely something someone would immediately ask me in person, so to see it pop up instantly in my notifications like that was both very funny and a depressing statement on human nature. “You mentioned there are two surefire ways to make you really sad for the rest of the day, but you only gave us one?”

I considered not answering, because that would be amazingly stupid ammo to just give away for free, but the thing about me is I wouldn’t be alive right now if I weren’t also amazingly stupid.

Anyway, one half of my family are wannabe rednecks. The other side is turkish and the only people in America who can find that on a map are the only ones who know exactly what they’re talking about. For reasons that are pretty understandable, there is enmity between turks and greeks, armenians, etc., so on the few occasions I’ve intentionally or accidentally outed the connection about myself in such company, I’ve more than once been called roach to my face with zero other provocation.

In their defense, ✩°｡⋆we do a little genocide as a treat⋆｡°✩, and seeing people double and triple down instead of simply just admitting that was maybe a mistake seems despairingly common. (If this is you, anonymous reader, you’re not having the effect on your national image that you think you are, and I wish I could go one day without being humiliated by proxy).

In my defense, the first person to ever say this to me was in their late 60s, I was a teenager, and I have never even been out of the country before. My numbers may be off because I got that public school education, but I do not think I was alive back then to have had any hand in this. In that sense, another (otherwise dismissive) commenter was very on the nose when they compared the dynamic at play to Original Sin: I never did this. I do not and would never agree to this. I can do very close to nothing or actually nothing at all to ever begin to fix it. But I still have to spend my life repenting for it.

I think I love you

Meanwhile, as a white guy I have no compunction against mocking white people every chance I get. Privilege, indeed.

I haven’t seen the to gear episode of a southern tour, but if your priorities are based on a TV show. From the UK nonetheless. You can’t really say shit about the South.

I’ve been there, they’re not all raving lunatics. There’s only like a 50% voting rate in the country. Of that, roughly half are one side or the other.

So this guy is limiting half the country in nothing and the half he likes.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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Living in pods.

Oooh, okay, never heard the term before.

The world they fight for is one where only the shittiest cosplaying is allowed?

Yeah racism ended with slavery and there have been zero lasting repercussions that need addressed.

What’s your proof of regression here? Because the poverty rate gap has lowered in the last couple decades, same with the high school and post secondary education gap and life expectancy gap. Not much change in the average income gap since the 90s, but that could take decades to see after a narrowing of educational gaps.

I’ve only found pre-pandemic data, but this is definitely compelling over the time scale we’re discussing.

https://www.pewresearch.org/interactives/racial-and-ethnic-gaps-in-the-u-s-persist-on-key-demographic-indicators/

I agree that a lot of financially well off (mostly) white people need to start being held to the same standard as our most vulnerable groups. Throw them in prison for life for minor drug offenses too! Opiod abuse? Straight to jail. /s.

Sarcasm aside, I agree it would be nice to be able to hold everyone to the same standards, but I’m not interested in ignoring how the history of our country has shaped our now. This country was designed with racism as a key feature, and that history does still impact people today.

I think what’s bringing us backwards is the sense of entitlement that some people have. They can’t stand to see someone else get help or raised up in status, especially if they’re not satisfied with their own place. They see equality as a lowering of their own station, not helping someone else.

It’s exclusively white in America. I’m sure there are other countries with other systems. I don’t live in those so I don’t know their history and systems.

Dude, you guys really benefitted from plundering the brits.

Privilege is generally fairly invisible to the people who have it. Like privilege of unrestricted travel. European nations with a high number of white people enjoy the privilege of their passports and visas allowing them to essentially walk into a high number of other countries. Let’s say… Denmark who has a whopping 159 countries that allow them free transit through boarders. If your country is predominantly not white and has broken ties with European colonization or has a non-European government structure then you might have free transit through approximately one quarter of the number of free countries and a number of additional stipulations are in place where you might theoretically have “free transit” but have to write ahead about your reasons for transit and can be denied access for things like visiting the deathbeds of dying family members.

Privilege isn’t just something that affects you from the standpoint of how well treated you are in comparison to the people immediately around you, it’s formative to your mindset because there are layers of restrictions of freedoms, choices and behaviours you don’t even have to know about because they do not apply to you. If you did not grow up with an expectation of having to make do with visibly less then privilege absolutely has shaped you and your worldview.

Not feeling privileged is part of privilege itself. Ask yourself if you feel like your experience has made you feel like a true citizen of your country? Can you wear clothes that allow you to feel modest by the standard of your religion without hastle? Were you as a child ever subjected to additional classes to reform your home culture? Privilege is as simple as feeling like you are home and nobody questions you being there.

Isn’t that basically “I can’t be racist, I have black friends”? What if I told you that I’d been told by Native Americans that they DON’T like being called “Indian”? And if they are Indian, what do you call people from India, exactly? You know, Indians?

You need more upvotes