Jan. 7, 2013 at 9:15am with 72 notes
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White people submitting their own white privilege

Something about this is bothering me. I’m not sure why. I’m glad that you’re acknowledging your privilege, like whoo hoo. But when you submit it, I get this weird feeling. Like you’re battling you’re demons in a place that was meant for POC to catalog white privilege. I don’t know. It just makes me feel weird.

Can I get some thoughts, poc?

  1. negrodamvs answered: side eye
  2. noitsprianka answered: i think it’s perfectly fine.
  3. lakeen answered: The oppressor can’t decide what’s oppression, right? That goes for even if they’re saying what is a privilege or what’s not.
  4. dee-minor answered: I think it’s okay that they’re doing it, AND okay that you’re calling it out. It’s a fine line between appreciation and appropriation.
  5. neverapologized answered: Even the demons have privilege …
  6. roqayya answered: It usually, as I have experienced it, leads to tokenization, outright or ‘tokenization-lite’.
  7. its-a-silly-username answered: Hi, I’m Asian, and I think that white people recognizing their privileges in everyday life is a big step in self-realization, as long as they
  8. always-tete answered: Something about it feels icky
  9. wont-take-a-backseat answered: I think that white people recognizing their privilege is a step in the right direction so long as they don’t get carried away
  10. marchoftigers answered: I dunno, as long as they don’t take over…they could have other friends submit for them.
  11. ikathulu answered: As poc lady I feel its like “I know and acknowledge it! Am I right? Is this helping me learn?” With a touch of “Do you feel better?”
  12. nomadicdreamer answered: That makes sense. It IS weird, it’s like, white privilege is also being able to talk about it on your own damn blog and be a hero, you don’t
  13. forcesofnature answered: im a black/hispanic man. i understand that this is touchy but in this case i think you should let them express this newfound understanding.
  14. homohysteria answered: Yeah…it’s like gently inappropriate. Those posts kind of comes off as rubbing-your-face-in-it.
  15. jopara answered: yep, bye white people.
  16. wastelandrhapsody answered: i feel like this isn’t the place for them to ask for cookies.
  17. onceuponatimmy answered: Experiencing it and admitting to it are different things so it’s not really helping
  18. ramblingreality answered: Some White folks I’ve come across like that act as though they are incapable of doing/saying racist things b/c they admit to some privilege.
  19. yonsei-rage answered: This is a safe space for pocs making it uncomfortable. Poc experience white privilege way differently than white people.