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irisblue

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2. Both? Yeah both

Reply to Cary (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 18, 2019, 10:23 AM

Aug 2019

The 1619 NYT mag & articles like this & "Teaching Tolerance"
public discussions help move thoughts and hopefully actions. I know from my own life experiences, I do not change my thinking/actions if a new idea doesn't make me at least a bit uncomfortable at first.
The 'newness' of an idea, " maybe Dad and Poppa were wrong about black men on the factory line..."
But then I tend to ruminate and study on ideas.

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The term "White Privilege" and people have feelings about it. [View all] irisblue Aug 2019 OP

There is a disconnect Cary Aug 2019 #1

Both? Yeah both irisblue Aug 2019 #2

My personal observation: Cary Aug 2019 #6

Those who need shame? All white Americans share the burden of this Eliot Rosewater Aug 2019 #12

Are you suggesting no white people have shame? Cary Aug 2019 #13

The great Prof. McIntosh says, "You have to look at it systemically. Kind of Blue Aug 2019 #4

You assume that they don't understand it. Cary Aug 2019 #7

Who is this they you are referring to? Kind of Blue Aug 2019 #8

Who is the "we" and "us" to whom your referred in the post I responded to? Cary Aug 2019 #9

Uh-hu... Kind of Blue Aug 2019 #10

I didn't say anything to deserve that Cary Aug 2019 #11

Speaking as a white person, I look at it as meaning there's shit I *don't* have to put up with The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2019 #3

I first realized my white privilege when I took public transportation for a few years. CrispyQ Aug 2019 #5