Yes, it's possible to self-select into a group of people who seem the same now, but that's still based on assumptions.
For example, until graduating high school, we were one of two "white" families in the entire neighborhood. Further, I didn't get my first computer until I was 16.. when I had saved up enough money at my minimum wage job to buy it myself. It only took two years. Finally, I was the first in my family to finish a full year of college and then the first to graduate. Only a few have followed me since.
Assuming you know who I am and what I am because I happen to look "white" and be male is insulting.
And you have no idea what it would be like to go through day-to-day life as a black woman. If your response to "You have privilege" is "I had it hard" you've already failed to even understand what the conversation is about.
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Yes, it's possible to self-select into a group of people who seem the same now, but that's still based on assumptions.
For example, until graduating high school, we were one of two "white" families in the entire neighborhood. Further, I didn't get my first computer until I was 16.. when I had saved up enough money at my minimum wage job to buy it myself. It only took two years. Finally, I was the first in my family to finish a full year of college and then the first to graduate. Only a few have followed me since.
Assuming you know who I am and what I am because I happen to look "white" and be male is insulting.
And you have no idea what it would be like to go through day-to-day life as a black woman. If your response to "You have privilege" is "I had it hard" you've already failed to even understand what the conversation is about.