Re:Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017)
by lolinder on Sunday April 17, 2022 @01:16PM
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I'm not arguing that people don't treat people differently based on the color of their skin, it's obvious that they do. I'm arguing that that differential treatment cannot be more significant than the vast array of other socioeconomic factors that contribute to privilege, and defining privilege as being primarily about skin color is racist.
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Re:Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017)
by manuelabeledo on Sunday April 17, 2022 @01:32PM
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> ...defining privilege as being primarily about skin color is racist.
I didn't say that. Mine was a comment limited to OP's assumption that some people (it wasn't clarified "who" these people are), think he is privileged because of him being of a certain ancestry, which is not true.
Re:Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017)
by lolinder on Sunday April 17, 2022 @01:47PM
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I may have misunderstood you, then. You quoted OP saying that people tell them they should "check their privilege" and you said that privilege is about skin color more than ethnic background. It seemed to me as though you were saying that OP should, in fact, check their privilege, which given what they told us about their family background seemed patently absurd.