You know, it's not OK to be racist, so I'm not sure why you are proud of self-identifying as such. It's not OK even if, as you claim, you grew up with a silver spoon. You know what's in your heart of hearts, so please work on whatever it is that you identified in yourself that makes you hate others for things that they cannot control.
I think every person with privilege likely contributes to harming other demographics in ways they don't fully understand. I built my current life from homelessness and used to think I came up from nothing... but it wasn't nothing. On my worst day I was white, cis, male, straight, and healthy. That is basically a cheat code in this game. I had to step back from patting myself on the back as much because I won a race built for me to win at the expense of others.
I will forever be a work in progress when it comes to extending my privileges to others to stop the cycle. I would rather commit to the mindset that I am always a little bit unconcioisly bigoted and contributing to the problem than thinking I have reached some plateau of perfect ethically balanced harmony with others. My male blood relatives all have confederate flag tattoos, and boldly claim they are not racist in spite of openly admitting they only trust other white people.
I try to never let myself reach the denial stage anymore. It is a trap.
>I think every person with privilege likely contributes to harming other demographics in ways they don't fully understand.
I think you should focus on yourself. Like I said, I don't know what's going on in your heart-of-hearts, but you do, and you see hate for others in there. I don't understand why you're like that. That's something you need to work on before you project what's inside you onto others. And let me tell you: The hate you feel for others not like you, is not normal.
>On my worst day I was white, cis, male, straight, and healthy.
Outside of health, who says those are the most important characteristics? What Scientific peer-review data says that?
None of those things intrinsically confer benefits. A poor white kid from a broken home isn't going to get any benefits in life just because he's white.
It's such an evil thing that is done where you single out children of a specific race who come, for example, from poverty and say to them: you're privileged because you're white.
What a terrible and evil philosophy you follow.
Study after study shows that success in life in modern democracies are dominated by factors other than things like race and gender. Things like:
- Height
- Attractiveness
- Age
- Immigration status
- Sense of Humor
- Verbal skill.
- Ingenuity
- Leadership qualities
- Sociability
- Upbringing
- Class status
- Imagination
- Cleverness
- Intelligence
- Education
- Athletic ability
all provide their own benefits and privileges. Many of those things I listed are a product of genetics and environment. I didn't choose to come to this country as 10 year old with parents who had no education, and 0 English, who then worked multiple blue-collar jobs, to then have you and others like you just see nothing but my skin color and say that everything was handed to me and my family because YOU had easy in life. Thanks but no thanks. And of course, the idea that only certain kinds of race or certain kinds of gender provide a benefit in very situation is insanity.
So please, you and I may share skin color hue but we are nothing alike and you don't know anything about me, so stop pretending you do.
I think you have misunderstood me. I don't feel any hate for others and wish for an integrated world where genetics don't give people advantages.
I do think I am sometimes ignorant and am unintentionally offensive and am in need of correction. Sometimes bigotry is baked into our very language and social norms but doesn't nessesarily have hate attached. I also think my lifestyle and sometimes laziness likely contributes to making the lives of others harder and I think a lot about how to set that right.
Also yes, in some of the very racist small towns I grew up in, I got jobs because I spoke good English and because I was white, while others that worked harder didn't.
I even literally had an ex tell me a motivator for dating me was because her parents didn't approve of her ex because he was black.
That sort of thing is pretty messed up, but not being a part of any oppressed groups gave me priority treatment sometimes without question.
This was especially apparent when I would go to court for traffic tickets and get off scot-free every time while black and Latino people in front of me would get the book thrown at them for offenses more minor than mine. Many studies have shown black people get harsher sentences on average and I have certainly seen evidence of this.
I don't think white people -should- have an advantage and I agree it is evil that they do, but dominant racism in our country creates that advantage.
Also I never once made any statements or assumptions about you however you keep making them about me, like assuming I had an easy life. Not sure why.
Unlike Shapiro however you will be unlikely to find any overtly bigoted content scrolling through my public commentary.