What I mean is that you shouldn't assume that these things automatically lead to privilege, or at least not always as much, not always as often. Our country is not monolithic. Being Catholic in an area that was 85% Mormon was certainly not an advantage, neither has being Catholic/Christian/religious in very liberal colleges and professional settings where things like being verbally attacked in front of classes by my professors for my religion were not uncommon experiences. And being striaght white and male meant that as an undergrad, I was automatically disqualified for more scholarships than qualified. And of course, growing up poor eliminated many of the advantages that I would have otherwise enjoyed. So, being in numerical majorities do not always afford such positions of privilege, or at least as much privilege, as frequently seems to be assumed. This assumption of privilege or freedom from patterns of descrimination just because I am straight, white, male and Christian is something that rankles me.
I don't follow you there. If you are in a group that decides another group is less then - how is group two able to have open dialog?
The problem is the assumption that there are only two groups. If one group is prohibitted from freely expressing their asshat opinions, then truly free and open dialogue is not possible between any groups.
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What I mean is that you shouldn't assume that these things automatically lead to privilege, or at least not always as much, not always as often. Our country is not monolithic. Being Catholic in an area that was 85% Mormon was certainly not an advantage, neither has being Catholic/Christian/religious in very liberal colleges and professional settings where things like being verbally attacked in front of classes by my professors for my religion were not uncommon experiences. And being striaght white and male meant that as an undergrad, I was automatically disqualified for more scholarships than qualified. And of course, growing up poor eliminated many of the advantages that I would have otherwise enjoyed. So, being in numerical majorities do not always afford such positions of privilege, or at least as much privilege, as frequently seems to be assumed. This assumption of privilege or freedom from patterns of descrimination just because I am straight, white, male and Christian is something that rankles me.
I don't follow you there. If you are in a group that decides another group is less then - how is group two able to have open dialog?
The problem is the assumption that there are only two groups. If one group is prohibitted from freely expressing their asshat opinions, then truly free and open dialogue is not possible between any groups.