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RaceVClass 43 - 11 Apr 2012 - Main.TomaLivshiz
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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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 I don't think you meant to imply this, But when you say "as a woman, I also accept complicity in perpetuating the system. Women themselves are often just as complicit as men in proliferating stereotypes," are you suggesting that, by analogy, minorities are equally to blame for the existence of white privilege? In what way do minorities benefit from a system of white privilege in the same way that white people do? It is in that sense I use the word "complicit," so I guess I fail to see your point when you say "this complicity is what unites us." I know you said that you don't mean to imply that minorities are responsible for or the cause of white supremacy, but then I guess I don't understand what the above quoted statement means since it seems to very straightforwardly imply that minorities are somewhat responsible for white supremacy.
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>		-- PrashantRai - 11 Apr 2012

Prashant,

Totally agree with your point above--and I think that other posters do too--that conversations about "whiteness" are indispensable (which is why, in my initial post, I wrote that we must talk about issues such as white privilege). I was born in Russia where my family was persecuted, grew up here as an immigrant, and yet would NEVER deny that I have been the beneficiary of white privilege. To claim otherwise would be dishonest. Discussions about whiteness are not necessarily alienating; labeling a group, any group, as greedy and oppressive is alienating

-- TomaLivshiz - 11 Apr 2012

 
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