• i_dont_want_to
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    37 minutes ago

    my white straight male boss, born into poverty and worked up the ladder without any major hiccups: white privilege isn’t real

    me, not white, male, or straight. Homeless multiple times some because I’m not straight, faced systemic racism, denied opportunities because not male: 😶

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    1 day ago

    Ask him to name one country where people get imprisoned, tortured or murdered for being hetero

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      1 day ago

      ahh but see trans people aren’t getting locked up so they can’t be oppressed, and even if they did it’s probobaly their fault for being a sex worker or something. now see, white guys can’t sexually harass women at work now so that’s the real issue here.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        Well obviously shunning people from polite society then applying harsher punishment to crimes of desperation isnt the same thing aa oppression /s

      • Zorsith
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        18 hours ago

        Cant lock up trans people if trans people don’t legally exist /s

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    Back when I thought I was a cishet guy, I got to hear white dudes complaining about all the ppression they faced. They didn’t perceive a privilege that everyone kept saying they had, not realizing that feeling “normal” was the privilege. The only times they didn’t feel normal was when people talked about white privilege, as their identity was only brought up in that context.

    They took not being the default for granted. It’s why they feel uncomfortable whenever a character is from another identity. It’s “woke” for them to feel that discomfort.