Girl Shames Friend For Achieving Everything Because Of ‘White Privilege,’ Doesn’t Expect Response Like This
While it’s undeniable that white privilege is a very real thing that affects many facets of modern society (including the way we discuss violent events), calling it out where it doesn’t exist – like most social issues – only serves to make the problem worse. A screenshot is now going viral that shows a prime example of this happening in a Facebook comment thread, and everyone is calling it ‘cringe-worthy.’
“I understand the reality of privilege, I’ve benefited off that system my whole life. What I don’t understand is this approach to gaining allies via insults and guilt tripping. Eroding their achievements does not create friends of your cause. It adds another wall between us,” one Imgur user poignantly commented.
See it for yourself below, and let us know if you thought this was social justice delivered, or gone terribly wrong.
People were quick to voice their opinions on the matter:
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Share on FacebookIt is important to discuss privilege - the advantages of money, colour, gender. But using it as a staple to be smug and rain on other people's parade is not just pathetic, it is crippling an important discourse. Apart from being a total jerk, the accusing girl is doing an immense amount of harm to everybody by tainting an important point.
@Katinka Min thank you, this is exactly what I wanted to say. There is a time and a place to discuss white privilege (and I would suggest that people google Peggy McIntosh's essay "Unpacking The Invisible Backpack" before they insist that white privilege isn't real). However, this was not the time or place for Melissa to bring up white privilege and her case of sour grapes is the reason why people think "SJWs" are crazy.
Load More Replies...What a jerk. Props to our girl on getting into yale, though, congrats!
This sounds more like someone trying to stir s**t up than to actually make an argument about privilege. In case anyone wasn't aware, "white privilege" only refers to the extra privileges that the colour of your skin get you (e.g. favourable treatment by the police, more likely to pass an interview, etc.). It doesn't mean "if you're white you must have an easy life". Race is only one of many, many axes of privilege.
Just like that woman who got thrown off the plane the other day. SAME kind of person. How sad that "everything is about race" to people like this. I cannot IMAGINE saying something like that to someone (ANYONE, regardless of circumstances) who worked hard enough to get into Yale Medical School. To me, that was just awful. Instead of congratulations, this person wrote what she did and THEN after the young lady going to Yale explained how "wrong" it was for that person to assume her success was because of "white privilege" she got that pathetic response. That was unreal. The person who posted the mean remarks will definitely have a hard time in life, she's proven in her short posts that she will always be a "victim" and ultimately a loser in life. Solely because of her attitude. Pity.
Load More Replies...It is important to discuss privilege - the advantages of money, colour, gender. But using it as a staple to be smug and rain on other people's parade is not just pathetic, it is crippling an important discourse. Apart from being a total jerk, the accusing girl is doing an immense amount of harm to everybody by tainting an important point.
@Katinka Min thank you, this is exactly what I wanted to say. There is a time and a place to discuss white privilege (and I would suggest that people google Peggy McIntosh's essay "Unpacking The Invisible Backpack" before they insist that white privilege isn't real). However, this was not the time or place for Melissa to bring up white privilege and her case of sour grapes is the reason why people think "SJWs" are crazy.
Load More Replies...What a jerk. Props to our girl on getting into yale, though, congrats!
This sounds more like someone trying to stir s**t up than to actually make an argument about privilege. In case anyone wasn't aware, "white privilege" only refers to the extra privileges that the colour of your skin get you (e.g. favourable treatment by the police, more likely to pass an interview, etc.). It doesn't mean "if you're white you must have an easy life". Race is only one of many, many axes of privilege.
Just like that woman who got thrown off the plane the other day. SAME kind of person. How sad that "everything is about race" to people like this. I cannot IMAGINE saying something like that to someone (ANYONE, regardless of circumstances) who worked hard enough to get into Yale Medical School. To me, that was just awful. Instead of congratulations, this person wrote what she did and THEN after the young lady going to Yale explained how "wrong" it was for that person to assume her success was because of "white privilege" she got that pathetic response. That was unreal. The person who posted the mean remarks will definitely have a hard time in life, she's proven in her short posts that she will always be a "victim" and ultimately a loser in life. Solely because of her attitude. Pity.
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