• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    Funny, but what does the skin color have to do with the situation?

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      6 months ago

      Did you drop a /s? This is a funny meme, so I’m assuming I just missed a joke.

      Right?

      (Speaking as a white male, white male entitlement, and privilege for that matter, are incredibly relevant to white men being sexist/racist.)

      (You can trust me on this because I’m a white male. Also, I’m used to my opinion being listened to, so I expect you to as well. Just FYI.)

    • It’s not obvious? Because white males as a demographic are the most privileged people on the planet and not coincidentally also the ones most prone to petty, oblivious arrogance, tantrum-throwing, and egotistical man-splaining. The latter was demonstrated by the one in this NASA scientist’s anecdote.

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        6 months ago

        This robs people of their individual context. The UK Prime Ministers wife is Indian and astonishingly privileged. You are suggesting a poor mine worker from Romania is somehow more privileged based on how he looks.

        Lumping people into loose categories (particularly based on skin colour) and then prescribing loose values to them is fascist and racist.