the-alchemist.livejournal.com ([identity profile] the-alchemist.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sophiaserpentia 2008-02-20 03:27 pm (UTC)

I found it very interesting, and it did give me a new perspective on the privilege I have as a white person.

At the same time, I think "trying to reduce your carbon footprint is a silly, pointless middle class excess" is a dangerous lie, and so I'm never very sympathetic towards anything that propagates it.

It amused me that many of the blog's sterotypes of 'white people' are the same as my sterotype of 'Americans' (the idea that India isn't in Asia, for example - European people find that weird). I guess this highlights both the author's prejudices (people are American by default) and mine (Americans are white by default).

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