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Post by Can_Not » Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 1:13 PM UTC

Veelox wrote: post #72

pavlov wrote: post #64

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I'm a white man too, and I don't understand what it means to "elevate" the rest of the population without white men having to change their ways. There's a strange Marie Antoinette quality to this discussion. The young queen just wanted everyone to be happy -- why couldn't the poor eat cake too? It's the same with men who sit on top of the present power structure and can't seem to understand why everyone else couldn't…

My current understanding of the idea of white privilege is that white men have structural advantages so that it is easy for them to succeed. Part of this is being unaware of the privilege and having the luxury of not having to notice things. I like you cake example. I agree with your implied point that not everyone has cake . I think there is a spectrum of solutions to some people having cake and others not. On one s…