What if me, a privileged and slow individual, trade $50 with anyone that teaches me how to run faster and win? I still have my privilege, I am not renouncing it, but now I am using it as a tool from which someone else may benefit. — Alejandro
As for the cis white male part, these are the people who have been "the powers that be" for a long time in American history, — GTTRPNK
the question is whether you take that oppression and make it a part of your identity. — BitconnectCarlos
Let's do neither, sound good? — BitconnectCarlos
There's bound to be at least one thing about everyone that qualifies as "oppressed" the question is whether you take that oppression and make it a part of your identity. — BitconnectCarlos
So you wish to perpetrate the myth that everyone suffers some form of oppression, and when called on that obvious fallacy you fall back on the pretence that all we need to do is play nice. — Banno
Systematic discrimination against people with a disability takes the form of stairs. Removing that discrimination requires that you remove the stairs.
Come on, you can do better. We're mostly talking about employment discrimination here - basically, employers not hiring disabled or ugly people because they see them as too big a burden or unfit for the position due to their disability. Of course the stairs are an obstacle and accommodations need to be made, but when we're tlaking about discrimination we're talking about discrimination mostly in the workplace involving employment and promotions, but also fair general treatment. — BitconnectCarlos
I absolutely acknowledge disabled people suffer. — GTTRPNK
is not analogous with a system intentionally built to exclude the success of a certain type of people, ie: people of color, women and LGBTQ, not to mention the ones who intersect (black, gay trans women.) — GTTRPNK
You might be; talking about employment; that you can ignore issues apart from those you list is your privilege. You get to pretend that the stairs are not the issue. — Banno
This is just wrong — BitconnectCarlos
Stairs are not systemically ableist. — BitconnectCarlos
Stairs provide a simple instance of how the built environment systematically privileges certain body-types. — Banno
It's not something the privileged would even notice were it not pointed out to them. — Banno
That's how privilege works. — Banno
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