white privilege

If you’ve nev­er dealt with any real prob­lems in life, suf­fered any real tragedy or loss, re­al­ly strug­gled or got­ten knocked back or been mis­treat­ed, then you’re prob­a­bly a lot more like­ly to be the type of per­son who grabs a tiki torch and heads out to yell an­gri­ly about your man­u­fac­tured griev­ances and the per­ceived slights to your iden­ti­ty while in­cit­ing vi­o­lence and ha­tred to­ward those you see as en­croach­ing on your entitlement.

Like­wise, if you’re some­one who is quick to de­fend those peo­ple, sym­pa­thize with them, ar­gue that we need to try to un­der­stand them, hear them out, com­pro­mise, meet their needs, that we aren’t so dif­fer­ent from them, well, you’re only par­tial­ly right. 

Speak for your­self, be­cause it’s you who isn’t so dif­fer­ent from them. If your de­fault is to make ex­cus­es for those mon­sters, you’ve nev­er re­al­ly dealt with any se­ri­ous­ly real shit either.

I’m not a huge fan of the word “priv­i­lege” be­cause it’s been mis­used and overused in so many ways by all the wrong peo­ple that even when brought up for le­git­i­mate rea­sons it now un­for­tu­nate­ly has the ef­fect of caus­ing peo­ple to roll their eyes and shut off. I don’t think that’s en­tire­ly unjustified.

But it ab­solute­ly takes a whole hell of a lot of priv­i­lege to be a white su­prema­cist or de­fend one, at all, to any ex­tent, for any rea­son. And there are no good rea­sons to de­fend them. Not a sin­gle one.

 
 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2017 Emi­ly Duchaine. Im­age from Char­lottesville.

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