“Privilege”
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1 min readFeb 1, 2019
“Microaggressions enable the privileged to be polite as they offload their discomfort. (When the oppressed make their discomfort known, it’s never polite.) For the most part, I don’t respond. There’s nothing truthful I could say that wouldn’t get me branded as either provocative or paranoid — much the way black people get labeled “angry,” or women “shrill.” Who would ever want to hire me? Now that I’ve joined an oppressed minority, I rely on my friend Marvin, a black attorney, for wisdom. He tells me my problem is that I’m unwilling to see things from their point of view. “But they can’t see this,” I say. “Right,” he says.”
