The original question was from Ryan Hussey and it asked
“ Am I anywhere close to understanding white privilege”
My answer was yes, because as a human being we are capable
of walking in the moccasins of someone else and feeling their pain as our pain.
I never said this
“No one is asking for “special privileges”
when asking that their rights as American citizens be honored.”
I never alluded, implied , insinuated or proposed this
“you do not have much empathy for this because you view it as greed.”
“It is not greedy to expect to be equal in the eyes of the law “
of course not I never said otherwise.
I never said this, never implied it and do not know how you think I did.
“I don’t think you’re honoring them by implying
it is greedy to have the laws they have sworn to protect be applied evenly for all citizens.”
I think they’d disagree with you
- if I had said what you think I said
then of course they would disagree with me,
I would disagree with me, if it was something I said, but I did not say it.
This part is jut plain bewildering
and making me wonder if you are mixing up what I wrote and what someone else wrote. “It seems like you’re struggling to hold up your justifications for your biases while admonishing others for asking you to set them down, and at the same time accusing them of using them as a shield.”
What shield? what setting them down? what admonishing others?
Again, all I was trying to say was that in my experience people have shoved aside my attempts to empathize with their pain accusing me of being unable to understand their pain because I had never experienced their specific pain,
and when Ryan asked could he understand the pain of someone else , I said yes.
How it came to be that it sounded like I thought it was greedy
or asking for special privileges to be treated equal under the law
is a complete mystery to me.