“Frankly, I’m tired of posts where white people lament their white privilege. The lamentation in and of itself is an aspect of your privilege. You should be grateful and move forward. There’s no need to passive-aggressively gloat your status.”
I so strongly agree with this. I’m a sociology prof. I’ve been researching, studying, writing, and activisting about racial inequality (and many other inequalities as well) for about 3 decades. And yet I’ve been so overwhelmed by the ick that is the SJW, call out culture, tumblr feminism, thing that the internet has facilitated in recent years. In particular, the virtue signaling, often from rather well to do college students, is both counter productive and obnoxious. In short, the approach and the tactics of many of those claiming, in their online world, to be anti-racist today, is just awful.
But their analysis isn’t. We of course really do live in a world of structural inequality, institutional racism, and a host of other unfair advantages and disadvantages. So I love it when someone finds a way to say “racism is real, and it sucks” without coming off as narcissistic or sanctimonious. And in that finely crafted opening paragraph, you’ve done just that. Hey Medium staff, more persuasive articles like this, and less self-absorbed dogma please.