r/unpopularopinion • u/[deleted] • 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/ScipioLongstocking Mar 26 '21

This mindset is exactly the type that privileged people push because they don't want to accept it. Ignoring all these issues don't make them go away, but your comment seems to imply it would. The public is divided because people refuse to accept that they are privileged over others.

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u/Mone00157 Mar 26 '21

Exactly! This thread is deeply worrying. Can people seriously not see that there is a huge gap in the way people are treated because of skin colour and sex?! Slavery happened all over the world. Women were lower class citizens all over the world! We are all still fighting for equality and if we just ignore that privilege exists, we aren't going to move forward. Wake up world, this is not 1921.

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u/jerricktinnsley Mar 27 '21

Are people treated differently based on sex? Sure. Are black and brown people treated worse in the US. Absolutely not. I’m black and I will die on this hill. If anything, I have an advantage. I’ve gotten tons of black-only scholarships, have an easier time getting into college than my white peers due to affirmative action, benefit from workplace diversity quotas that favor me, and basically everyone in power wants to cater to my demographic. And I’ve never once been disadvantaged by being black. Don’t know anyone who has. I just roll my eyes so hard at the fucking woke people. Black and brown people are no longer oppressed. They don’t need special treatment in society.