It's easy to say that it feels like a psyop, but the levels of class reductionism - that is to say - the knee-jerk ridicule of intersectional shit or critical race theory stuff feels highly suspect. Like, you can't say white people are nerds (which they are) in a lot of anti-woke left spaces without harsh rebukes, and it seems really suspect to me. Is there a real fash pipeline in our midst? Are class reductionist white people that sensitive and defensive and... well... white to the point that they can't let go of their privilege even in the context of them being left?

  • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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    4 years ago

    Like it or not, there are a lot of poor white people who bristle at a suggestion that they’re privileged. And while yes, they technically enjoy a particular privilege that a POC with the same SES don’t, for many it feels like an erasure of the type of oppression they have been experiencing for generations.

    'Privilege' is an ensemble attribute, not something that makes sense mapped down to a specific individual. Saying that an individual is "white-privileged" makes about as much sense as saying an indiviual gas particle has a specific temperature.