If their argument is invalid, its invalid independent of their sex or race.
It seems to me that you disagree (with perhaps legitimate reasons) with the opinions, but rather than addressing that, use race or sex as an excuse to dismiss the holder of opinion (but selectively -- only when it disagrees with the "correct" opinion.)
But if you have not fully lived the other person's life experience to the totality that they have, how can you be so certain of their privilege based on 2 data points?
Because they are the biggest hypocrites of all. They hide behind a faux-academic legitimacy of radical feminism and sociology. They redefine racism/sexism to be power+privilege giving themselves a free pass to be bigots and attempt to silence dissenting opinions.
If you are a white man who disagrees with them you're automatically wrong and you don't have the right to have an opinion. If you're not white or you are a woman and you disagree with them it's called "internalized misogyny".
Basically these people have built up fallacious dogma to protect their tenuously fragile and hypocritical beliefs to justify their own hatred so they can be guilt free.
Privilege does not mean you have had a problem free life. It means you haven't had to deal with certain things that other people have to deal with.
If you are a white dude, you've never had a bank officer refuse you a loan for bullshit reasons because of his own racism. You've never had your resume skipped from a stack because the person looking at it didn't like your foreign sounding name, or because they were worried you might get pregnant. You've never had coworkers contribute to a climate of harassment because "it's just a joke" about rape, sexism, race, etc.
I grew up really poor. Like, collecting bottles and exchanging for food poor with my single mother and sister. I had to work my ass off to get where I am today, but I did it by being able to get loans, being able to get apartments, by connections I made because of other white dudes.
It took me a long time to realize that privilege isn't "you have everything"; privilege is "you don't have drawbacks that other people have to deal with daily no matter their situation."
dragonwriter|11 years ago
It seems to me that you disagree (with perhaps legitimate reasons) with the opinions, but rather than addressing that, use race or sex as an excuse to dismiss the holder of opinion (but selectively -- only when it disagrees with the "correct" opinion.)
mkal_tsr|11 years ago
gnarbarian|11 years ago
If you are a white man who disagrees with them you're automatically wrong and you don't have the right to have an opinion. If you're not white or you are a woman and you disagree with them it's called "internalized misogyny".
Basically these people have built up fallacious dogma to protect their tenuously fragile and hypocritical beliefs to justify their own hatred so they can be guilt free.
mrcharles|11 years ago
If you are a white dude, you've never had a bank officer refuse you a loan for bullshit reasons because of his own racism. You've never had your resume skipped from a stack because the person looking at it didn't like your foreign sounding name, or because they were worried you might get pregnant. You've never had coworkers contribute to a climate of harassment because "it's just a joke" about rape, sexism, race, etc.
I grew up really poor. Like, collecting bottles and exchanging for food poor with my single mother and sister. I had to work my ass off to get where I am today, but I did it by being able to get loans, being able to get apartments, by connections I made because of other white dudes.
It took me a long time to realize that privilege isn't "you have everything"; privilege is "you don't have drawbacks that other people have to deal with daily no matter their situation."