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White, male privilege.

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Yeah nothing to be proud of but I can’t discount how powerful this one is, now that I’m “woke” to it.

Like I have worked for people for years and just not known they were racist or sexist, only for them to let it slip. And then you see behind the mask.

Realising why there are no people of colour in my office, or women with any kind of power. Realising I would not have this job if I was not a white man.

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As a queer person, it feels even weirder. Like I’m a spy and my cover could be blown at any moment.

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Even as a straight I kinda feel that way sometimes, all theses assholes keep telling on themselves to me. It’s also depressing how many of them there are

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Welcome to being “high functioning” autistic, which is basically an undercover assignment from birth where if you slip up suddenly you have enemies.

Nobody, literally zero people, will acknowledge treating autistic people differently but holy shit.

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That’s nothing compared to good looks. Opens literally all doors in life. Secret cheat code.

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I hate it when you see those images on other SM of poor white people and some knuckle dragger says “I see no white privilege here”.

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Why do you hate that?

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Because white privilege doesn’t mean you were born rich, it means you have to work harder for the same or less.

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Did you ever use it?

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It’s not something you actively use, it is just “there.”

For example: I applied to a job as a refrigeration technician and during the interview the guy actually fucking said “it’s really hard to get clean cut white guys to apply. I don’t want some Dominican (literally referring to their Dominican maintenance guy) walking into a store with our logos on.”

I had finished a tech school with some other black guys that I know also applied, I got the job and they didn’t. :/

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I bet that interviewer cheers like crazy when a Dominican player hits a home run for their favorite team, LOL.

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Nah, if you aren’t a magat, they revoke your privilage anyways.

If cops know you support any ideology left of Biden, they will shoot you too. We’re in this together.

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Yeah, I guess left-leaning white males are just as underprivileged and oppressed as people of color and women. We should rename it to “conservative white male privilege.”

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I know you’re joking, but queer white men exist, and they also face oppression.

It’s almost like the system that keeps us all oppressed actually doesn’t give a shit about these marginal differences, and just wants to keep us focused on identity politics and fracturing ourselves.

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A motivated person? Crazy

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Been there, wasn’t that great.

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