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Originally Posted by Diode
but i know if i'd had the wrong color skin i would absolutely not have had some of the opportunities i did.
period.
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i acknowledged this by stating they don't get the same number of opportunities in the post you quoted
but to pretend like there are no opportunities is ridiculous
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Originally Posted by Diode
you don't believe in a social safety net. you don't value any life that isn't your own or associated with your own well-being / happiness. you've made that clear a thousand times over.. so this sarcastic nonsense is pointless.
what happens when the churches don't have food to give? how do you save money when any bill exceeds your maximum ability to earn? you don't understand the general concept of systemic oppression and i don't have any means of making you see it. hell, all i can even do is sympathize - i will never know what it's like to be poor and black/hispanic/gay/trans/etc. in this country, but i can see just how badly we treat everyone who isn't straight and white and know it's wrong.
you can't. so be it.
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you can value life outside of your own without being forced to help it at the detriment of your own.
gays and mentally ill aside, i can sympathize with minorities, but i can't pretend they are the helpless victims the left paints them out to be. my anecdotal life experience tells me otherwise. but again, im in the trenches of blue collar life. maybe the white guilt is heavier the higher you climb i dunno