Some of the sharpest observations about whiteness come from POC (no surprise). A key point, enacted as I wrote this by @ntabebe and his expert edit (tho if you hate the essay, all fault is mine)
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White people: Our racial identity is a problem, but we still gotta own it.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/magazine/white-people-are-noticing-something-new-their-own-whiteness.html …
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@GeeDee215 &@missydepino &@BeelzeBebout & Matthew Frye Jacobson for your help!Show this thread
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As a Jew, who the fuck gave you permission to speak for white people????
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that's the real racist privilege
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I'm so sick of these people projecting anti white hatred from a position of power and privilege
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Agree.. all "my fellow white people" can get cosby'd
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http://azjewishpost.com/2013/social-legal-facets-of-bullying-topic-for-author-yale-law-grad/ … "Her family, with her husband and two sons, belongs to a Reform synagogue in the New Haven area and they light Shabbat candles weekly."
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Tell us more about our privilege, fellow white person. http://www.unz.com/runz/the-myth-of-american-meritocracy/ …pic.twitter.com/pir4JuRqRC
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You're a member of the wealthiest, most disproportionately influential group there is sitting there in an astronomically expensive gentrified city telling working class whites in the rust belt that they're privileged and oppressing you.
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You know, there's a class hierarchy among us whites who don't happen to be Jewish, yeah? So when you attack your "fellow white people," the attacks fall on the bottom of that hierarchy where people are less insulated from the consequences.
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Do I need to walk you through all the obvious implications? I mean, you went to Yale, didn't you? I'd think somebody who went to such a prestigious school could surely work the rest out on her own.
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