Most of the time I prefer to mock Social Justice Warriors. Yes, I know, it’s probably petty, but they aren’t exactly welcoming of debate (you racist!), and so satire is the only real vehicle left to those of us who oppose them. Today, however, I will endeavor to rationally deconstruct their notion of privilege for the benefit of others.
If you read this little gem, Dear White, Straight, Cisgender, Man People: You Are Privileged, you will see the lunacy in all its obscene glory. This is a site that deliberately invokes a sort of childish air, with its hand-scrabble cartoons, preschool fonts and overall nursery-rhyme appearance appropriate for the infantile generation of coddled Social Justice advocates.
To the headline, I can only say: duh. Of course you are privileged. Anyone who is reading this is privileged. You have a computer or mobile device, you probably live in a First World country and there is a high probability you are in the upper 10% of income-earners worldwide. Your skin color and your sex are both irrelevant to that point. Being charitable to this fellow, I’ll even concede that, a few decades ago, White people definitely got a better shake in America, generally speaking, than their darker-complected counterparts. Certainly they did in the era of Jim Crow and slavery. Women, likewise, had less freedoms than men at one point. The important question, however, is what can you do about it? Without a practical time machine, your options for correcting the wrongs are rather limited. You are closing the barn door after the horses have left.
Read the rest here.
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