cuz 1. you're privileged as a white person to get away with saying that shit without people getting mad at you and 2. there's always this implication that they're "one of the good ones", as if dumping on other white people somehow makes them better
the big problems are structures and behaviors that perpetuate existing inequality, such as nepotism and hiring people as "culture fits"; generational wealth; explicit attempts to disenfranchise people of color; etc.
i think some liberals fantasize about not having white guilt, while some people further to the right just really really want to be allowed to say the n word
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i hate when people claim that trans women are privileged because they use she/her pronouns or whatever. what an absurd and weird take. so much of the world is against transfem people and frankly the bigots don't care about the fine details
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i acknowledge that i look pretty white to most people. it's worth pointing out that perception of race is not at all consistent or objective so part of that is what people themselves are bringing to the table. i am half white and half east asian. my mom was born in Seoul and moved to the US as a kid. my biological dad died when i was a baby and my (white) stepdad is a piece of shit who i haven't talked to in years. i rarely see the white side of my family, partly because they're mostly weird alcoholic conservatives who live in Idaho and Texas. there are aspects of someone's race you can't tell just from looking at them, but all of that gets flattened in breathless online discourse that hunts down photos of someone to say that white-passing = morally bad
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I've very consistently seen people use "oh I'm just criticizing WHITE women" as a shield for really blatant misogyny. the fact that someone is privileged in one axis of identity doesn't give you a free pass to shit on the marginalized identities they also have
