Recognizing privilege

[warinbear]

I'm not terribly comfortable making posts on Facebook. I rarely hit the Like button, and I don't think I've ever hit the Share button. I don't even comment much. I don't know exactly why this should be, but it's peripheral to this post.

Someone I consider a friend liked a recent post on a page over there, and I felt moved to respond. I don't

Comments

[elialshadowpine]

The complex is actually quite simple. It's a generalization akin to "men/white people/straight people suck". If you're not the white person doing this, they're not talking about you. I can't actually think of a friend of mine from another culture that I've felt any need to ask questions about; I mean, for most common things, there's the internet. A really common one, one of the examples here even, is "is this restaurant authentic XYZ cuisine?" Um, go to Yelp, read the reviews. Usually, you'll get your answer -- or, you might not, because there are a lot of people who are saying yes it is but also a lot saying no it isn't. Most of what categorizes stupid white people questions will have the answers found via Google. Sometimes there are more complicated questions, and things you can't Google... buuuuut, those types of questions and the people asking them probably aren't the people they have in mind when ranting about #stupidwhitepeoplequestions.

[warinbear]

The fact that I know the OP wasn't talking about me is (another piece of) why I don't feel comfortable commenting directly. I do not want to #NotAllWhitePeople or #Whitesplain.