I speak to them without knowing exactly what because part of the point is nobody can know exactly, not even oneself. However, if you look at the differences between races, genders, and classes, it's obvious somebody came out on top of the pecking order, and the concept of privilege makes the most sense at least to me of why.
Nothing is absolute in this world, certainly. However, if we rejected everything that couldn't be absolutely proved, we'd have very little in the way of sure knowledge. Still, you made assumptions based on the experience - if you hadn't you wouldn't have posted. So I'm challenging your assumptions and you're challenging mine. That's how dialogue works.
While certainly very little is absolute, there are things that apply often enough that assumptions can be made based on prior results. Sure they might not work out, but they're good enough to be used as guidelines. Again, as reference to this, the beginning of this comment. Somehow us white males got ahead of everyone else, and the reason that seems most logical to me is privilege.
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Date: 2009-06-30 05:32 pm (UTC)Nothing is absolute in this world, certainly. However, if we rejected everything that couldn't be absolutely proved, we'd have very little in the way of sure knowledge. Still, you made assumptions based on the experience - if you hadn't you wouldn't have posted. So I'm challenging your assumptions and you're challenging mine. That's how dialogue works.
While certainly very little is absolute, there are things that apply often enough that assumptions can be made based on prior results. Sure they might not work out, but they're good enough to be used as guidelines. Again, as reference to this, the beginning of this comment. Somehow us white males got ahead of everyone else, and the reason that seems most logical to me is privilege.