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Cary

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13. Are you suggesting no white people have shame?

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #12)

Mon Aug 19, 2019, 10:04 PM

Aug 2019

Not that that was my point, mind you.

As one who is 99.7% Ashkenazi Jew I can assure you that my ancestors had a pretty difficult time, and played no role in slavery.

Not that that matters. I have some problems with your concept.

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The term "White Privilege" and people have feelings about it. [View all] irisblue Aug 2019 OP

There is a disconnect Cary Aug 2019 #1

Both? Yeah both irisblue Aug 2019 #2

My personal observation: Cary Aug 2019 #6

Those who need shame? All white Americans share the burden of this Eliot Rosewater Aug 2019 #12

Are you suggesting no white people have shame? Cary Aug 2019 #13

The great Prof. McIntosh says, "You have to look at it systemically. Kind of Blue Aug 2019 #4

You assume that they don't understand it. Cary Aug 2019 #7

Who is this they you are referring to? Kind of Blue Aug 2019 #8

Who is the "we" and "us" to whom your referred in the post I responded to? Cary Aug 2019 #9

Uh-hu... Kind of Blue Aug 2019 #10

I didn't say anything to deserve that Cary Aug 2019 #11

Speaking as a white person, I look at it as meaning there's shit I *don't* have to put up with The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2019 #3

I first realized my white privilege when I took public transportation for a few years. CrispyQ Aug 2019 #5