Originally Posted by
Tendrin
No. It 'alienates' people who don't want to think about their unearned boons. There's nothing more frightening to someone than the realization that they don't deserve what they have and a lot of people turn away from it, quickly. The other side of the coin is that white people who are suffering, when you say 'white privelege', turn around and say 'But I don't have that! I'm poor as shit!" without understanding what it really means. That's why it needs to be talked about. Solely discussing how anti-blackness effects blacks won't solve the real issues of inequalities, because it allows people to obscure the reality of what's going on. I mean, ultimately, if we allow our discourse and what words are allowed to be used based on the fragility of the people most invested in that power structure, we're never actually going to be able to come close to resolving it.
It's interesting that it's just another point where the fragility is exposed: when many white people are exposed to even a tiny fragment of what's thrown at minorities in this country, well, their feelings have to be /protected/, but they're the first to start shouting about 'the bell curve', or 'black on black crime stats', or what have you.
I think a lot of us, deep down, know what the inequalities are, know what their roots are, and we'd just rather not think about it. It's easier to blame the victim instead, or tone police them, or find any reason we can not to confront what must be confronted for this country to move in a better, more just direction. Right now, we're nowhere close, as the current government in power indicates. Instead, a lot of people would rather retreat into fantasy.