[lbo-talk] Check your privilege?

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 18 08:47:19 PDT 2013


On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:13 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:


> What's always funny about these conversations is that I remember a
> feminist blog war that ensued when a blogger supported some racist POV. I
> can't remember the details except that among the critics of said blog, the
> white bloggers were very keen to argue and very keen to call what had
> happened racist. It was the women of color bloggers who checked their white
> feminist allies, asked them to tone it down and, repeatedly, refused to use
> the "r" word - even in the face of some ridiculous Scarlett O'hara-like
> flouncing.
>

That was suggested in the FB thread, that it was most often invoked by whites, males, etc. (pick your dimension). I can't really say, I tend not to stick around long enough to determine who is in fact a dog.

-- Andy "It's a testament to ketchup that there can be no confusion."



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