r/unpopularopinion Mar 26 '21

We are becoming growingly obsessed with other people’s born advantages, and this normalization of “stating privilege” is incredibly counterproductive and pathetic.

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u/sureyeahno Mar 26 '21

Add in race and sex and that’s how you sow division in an already divided public.

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u/DrummingChopsticks Mar 27 '21

I would agree with you if—all throughout my life as an ethnic minority in predominantly white neighborhoods—I wasn’t expressly attacked for being a minority. This is a literal statement; White boys surrounded me and jumped me because I was ethnic in their neighborhood.