Hmm

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Somebody just doesn't get white-male privilege? Or is there a stronger point: one should not be harsh to anyone, not even whites, men, nor even Christians or libertarians?

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[dexeron.livejournal.com]

In the world of privilege, context and history don't exist.

[icelore.livejournal.com]

I like that. Not everything said to minorities and/or women are said *because* they are minorities and/or women. But in the new pissing contest that is the privilege debate and oppression olympics, that fine point seems to have been missed.

[trog.livejournal.com]

We need the hierarchy of victimtude, though.

Suppose it's Native-American calling an African-American worthless? Vice-versa? What about a transgendered lesbian Korean single mother calling a Hispanic hermaphrodite disabled single father (?) stupid? Vice-versa?

Does anyone have the definitive privilege scale available?

[new-wave-witch.livejournal.com]

My Life In a Vacuum by Y.T. Redditor

[hurleyman.livejournal.com]

Someone may have already posted this, but as a woman, when you pay me equal salary to my male co workers for the same work and get the fuck out of my uterus, you can call me whatever the fuck you want!

[brother-dour.livejournal.com]

I subscribe to the 'stronger point' theory myself. At the very least it is easier to say, "Just be nice to everyone" (even if it is very difficult to do in practice).

+100 even. I was doing good until those last four categories. They cost me a good 25 points. Curse my short, fat, not-an-engineer self!