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RaceVClass 24 - 11 Apr 2012 - Main.KippMueller
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 I realize this is going to be a pretty damn controversial post, but I feel compelled to speak on the subject. I sometimes become concerned that classism becomes too easily conflated with racism in our world.

There's many draws to calling a certain policy racist:

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 And I don't believe it's unjustified for me to feel a sense of alienation just because I'm white. I don't think you do either, Shefali, but I just sense from the thread generally a resistance to it and I want to address it outright.

-- KippMueller - 09 Apr 2012

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>		I also wanted to add something from earlier. Rumbi, you mentioned my first post implied that I "privilege 'white comfort' over the fact that the speaker may well have felt that race was the more salient issue at play".

I don't know really what "white comfort" is as a concept. But I value my own integrity and right not to be discriminated against. And while the speaker may have thought that the policy was primarily race-based that he was discussing, that doesn't justify in my opinion calling all white people "greedy" or oppressive. He didn't put it as eloquently as race "being the salient issue at play". He told me I was greedy and oppressive. Needless to say, he had never met me. He didn't know my passions, my commitments. I was now greedy and oppressive in that room.

I don't think there's anything at all wrong, as I've been saying every post, with saying that policies are racist and favor white people in this country. That's just not what was said.

(Sorry for specifically addressing posts to people. I just want to address particular statements and play them out. I know all of you posting and love and respect you muchly!)

-- KippMueller - 09 Apr 2012


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