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- Subject: Re: Men doing Male Bashing
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- Date: 18 Jan 93 14:00:52 GMT
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- From: farthing@leland.Stanford.EDU (ljf)
- Subject: Re: Men doing Male Bashing
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- -I do think whites as a class benefit from racism in this country.
- -What does white privilege do for me as a white? It means that I
- -probably have a wider choice of housing, jobs, and opportunities than
- -I would if I were black. It means that I can drive an old, beatup car
- -around Palo Alto and not be stopped by police for being suspected of
- -being in the neighborhood to commit a crime. It means that I'm not
- -saddled with negative stereotypes about being white.
- -
- Farthing is confusing benefits and a lack of loss. The things that
- he is mentioning are all things that everyone should have in a fair
- society, not special privileges that whites have as a RESULT of blacks
- being oppressed. In other words, in a fair socity, everyone should be
- able to drive in an old car without being hassled by the police. So this
- is not a special privilege, it is an ordinary right that some blacks,
- as a matter of fact do not have. But that is not a proof that Farthing
- is benefitting from blacks being oppressed.
-
- Rohit Parikh
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