hkellick: Words Like Violence Break The Silence (Enjoy the SIlence)
HK ([personal profile] hkellick) wrote 2009-06-30 05:23 pm (UTC)

I keep reading this response, especially the first paragraph.

I find it fascinating how near-total-strangers can speak to the benefits I've personally experienced from White Privilege.

I think if you speak regarding society as a whole, White Privilege is a reality, but as to People in particular, or situations in particular... I can't say I believe it's so cut and dry. Life is far more complicated than that.

It's just like this case. We're making many assumptions regarding it, such as how biased that test was. I don't know the reality of how fair the test was, do you? Can we really speak to whether or not it was right to throw the results of the exam out?

Assumptions only go so far and very rarely work to the Human Experience. For every assumption you have, I'm sure we can find at LEAST one person who breaks it.

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