I am against racism but I am against hypocrisy hospitality welcoming unknown migrants, I remember very well how it was at nineties when our authorities were weak - the people from South were making gungs that all the Moscow police was afraid of them, they were doing everything they liked fucked and killed our girls and so on. Now the situation is much better only because our constant hard police and migration control work. So, every time I hear people are saying bullshit about hospitality I am telling give ten more immigrants to live in your home instead of your relatives after tell this kind good for nothing.
I have my troubles with this American definition of "privilege" for social groups too. Just, how much privilege does it give to you if you live as a white person in an all-white society? Nothing. Sure, you would be worse off if you were not white. But that doesn't change anything about the circumstance that still hierarchies are active for me as a white person in an all-white society. Do all people of this all-white society possess the same wealth and degree of education? No. There's still rich and poor in this society and white-skin birth changes nothing about that. Being white-skinned doesn't change anything about that in this society that you can still be lowest end of the hierarchie for some reasons. And then, if you are in this position, are you still so privileged? Are you then so much better off than a black person in generalYou've got one aspect of getting into trouble less in your life, but that's about it
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I don't know what to say... the white privileges... yes, I'd heard this from Americans which are not white but I'd never heard this from white Americans which now are starting to fight for their rights to be treated as equal with other color people. I'd heard from some my former LJ friends that they are ashamed about some things done by white police in USA (like shootings by police the blacks on the streets like homeless dogs for ex.) and their grands were using slaves... you know I'm so far from this here in Russia after the Soviet Union heritage where everybody were equal and even now I am and people around me have no problem with immigrants, nations, each other we are looking on what man is at first place and after it could matter what is his nation, citizenship and so on. You could be here a rich Russian man but everybody will be treating you like a dirt if you will act accordingly and here people are thinking about what to do cause it is difficult to get a good name and easy to lost it. Though I had an acquaintance from East
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All these is designed just to make people form different social groups fight between one another. Meanwhile the real problem behind discrimination is again mostly traditional poverty because different races were colonized and women are paid less because they bear children and not as desirable workers for making consistent profit. However they are made to think if they hate men their life would become better.
I often put the question to myself if the beginnings of all this (meaning: Identity Politics) wasn't just there for this purpose in general, only disguising itself as "wanting to raise consciousness and improve the situation of social minorities". Looking at what's going on these days, what it does to people, I can't see any different purpose of it than producing quarrel and fights between different groups of people.
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Just, how much privilege does it give to you if you live as a white person in an all-white society? Nothing. Sure, you would be worse off if you were not white.
But that doesn't change anything about the circumstance that still hierarchies are active for me as a white person in an all-white society. Do all people of this all-white society possess the same wealth and degree of education? No. There's still rich and poor in this society and white-skin birth changes nothing about that.
Being white-skinned doesn't change anything about that in this society that you can still be lowest end of the hierarchie for some reasons.
And then, if you are in this position, are you still so privileged? Are you then so much better off than a black person in generalYou've got one aspect of getting into trouble less in your life, but that's about it ( ... )
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Looking at what's going on these days, what it does to people, I can't see any different purpose of it than producing quarrel and fights between different groups of people.
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