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jimpage363 at 11:19pm on 12/03/2009 under fandom
jimpage363 at 11:19pm on 12/03/2009 under fandom...I don't really know a thing.
After reading reactions to the whole situation referred to as "RaceFail 09", I started reading and reading. Not as deeply as some or as I should, I know. What I have figured out is that there are a whole bunch of writers out there that I would not like to read or even meet on the street. I have also figured out that I don't have a clue about a lot of these issues, which are real, terrible and daily gut-twists for my fellow-citizens and neighbors.
But my first step in getting a clue is recognizing the invisible white privilege I have assumed without even noticing. Peggy McIntosh lays it out pretty well. As a Jew, there was only ONE on her list of 50 that I could even say "Yes, but..." about. I hope I'm not that "special little oppressed white snowflake" whose singular nasty experience somehow invalidates a person of color's real and systemic experience of being unprivileged.
Check out her article here:http://mmcisaac.faculty.asu.edu/emc598ge/Unpacking.html "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack".
After reading reactions to the whole situation referred to as "RaceFail 09", I started reading and reading. Not as deeply as some or as I should, I know. What I have figured out is that there are a whole bunch of writers out there that I would not like to read or even meet on the street. I have also figured out that I don't have a clue about a lot of these issues, which are real, terrible and daily gut-twists for my fellow-citizens and neighbors.
But my first step in getting a clue is recognizing the invisible white privilege I have assumed without even noticing. Peggy McIntosh lays it out pretty well. As a Jew, there was only ONE on her list of 50 that I could even say "Yes, but..." about. I hope I'm not that "special little oppressed white snowflake" whose singular nasty experience somehow invalidates a person of color's real and systemic experience of being unprivileged.
Check out her article here:http://mmcisaac.faculty.asu.edu/emc598ge/Unpacking.html "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack".
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