White and/or Male Privilege. So many of you respond "Well i'm poor, i have troubles, how do i have privilege?"

@Zaphod42

Are you sure it's because your white?????
Maybe it was because he couldn't see thru the tint & when he could you weren't armed which put him @ ease ?????

@pdockal Maybe…in the moment I just had the distinct impression that would have gone a different way if I hadn’t been. Thats not a gut feeling I’ve had with any other office before.

@Zaphod42

I know lots of officers and until the perp complies they are in a heightened state and react to their training and the statistics
It's our job to put them @ ease and let them do their jobs when you don't do that .........

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow

Yeah as i said to the other guy: Ableism is another prejudice and being healthy is another privilege that people don't recognize.

But i hear you. It does suck that as a member of the privileged group, the other areas where you suffer from injustice are minimized or dismissed.
I agree, the subject is nuanced.

@jehova

Ableism is indeed another injustice that those privileged to be without it do not understand.
Thank you for supporting the point.

@Pikachu ty.

@Bumbles I mean some people use it that way. Buzzfeed made bank on the more pointless aspects of such discourse.


But all of those terms have more than rhetorical value.

They come from and are meant for serious conversations that are meant to make you think about the preconceived notions you have taken for granted about the world around you.


For example mass incarceration is something people should be aware of. The next time a politician tries to convince them they need to be "tough on crime" people in the US especially need to understand that there is a billion dollar industry behind that slogan.


You want for someone to understand what a micro aggression is as a conservative. Tell them that a micro aggression is how people react on sight to their MAGA hat.


Social constructs are important because peace and understanding can come from the knowledge that there is nothing fundamentally different between you and someone with different skin tone.

And people are more likely to rethink their assumptions about gender when they realize stuff like "pink for girls, and blue for boys" only goes about as far back as 1914.


But these important discussions rarely happen on social media.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I agree that the terms can be more than rhetoric, but in the wrong hands, and there are many of them, not so much. I also note you don’t hear the terms that often anymore. An indication they were en vogue…

@gol979

Absolutely not. You have missed the point.