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Checking privilege doesn't limit anyone's opportunity. Its simply asking someone to acknowledge the struggles of those who do not share their identity. Its a demand for courtesy. its not saying "you don't get _________ because you have privilege".
That's one of the stupidest rationalizations I have ever heard.
Because statistically, individual variability is orders of magnitude higher than variability attributable to visible groupings such as skin color.
Your demand for courtesy is an insult.
That is because race is not real and is a social construct. This doesn't mean racism doesn't exist and hasn't had real effects and perhaps you don't know about the systemic racism that has taken place in the US because you had the privilege to not need to know. You would have to check your privilege to take the time to research practices that systemically penalized people based on race. It would be uncomfortable and life is a lot more pleasant to just pretend it doesn't exist.
Then again, it could be because you have simply fallen for one of the stupidest social constructs ever promulgated by maniacs of the left.
This is far more likely than your being right. The reason I say this is that my first answer to your ridiculous assertions was quite scientific.
Because statistically, individual variability is orders of magnitude higher than variability attributable to visible groupings such as skin color.It's actually irrefutable.
But you missed that entirely and went on with the lecturing. And I'll repeat my former conclusion.
Your demand for courtesy is an insult. Particularly when you haven't the slightest clue what I know or don't know.
So are you denying the history of systemic racism? because that is also irrefutable but of course you can't attribute individual differences to one single pillar of identity.
Both (the absence of race and the history of racism) are irrefutable. No one ever challenged what you are saying about individual variability. In fact, its actually part of the point of talking about privilege in general. We should see people as individuals and there are so many pillars of someones identity that may or may not come with privilege.
The thing with skin color though is that I can see it and know it about you right away. If I see a white person, I know that they nor their immediate family have been denied basic services or freedoms because of their race. That is white privilege and doesn't mean that they haven't had those things denied, it just means it hasn't been because of race.
An good example would be a white trans female. They obviously have a tough experience because they lack male privilege and cis privilege even though they still have white privilege.
You can't just call something stupid because YOU don't understand it. A lot of research has been done on people like this.
The research by L. Taylor Phillips, a PhD student at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Brian Lowery, the Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford GSB, found that whites exposed to evidence of racial privilege responded by claiming their own personal hardships. Those surveyed didn’t deny the existence of racial privileges held by whites as a group, they just came up with other reasons — namely, personal obstacles — why they should be considered differently from that overall group.
