privilege
I dislike framing #privilege in racial terms. It reaches those already aware & misses a huge growing reservoir of white privilege... brown people. That the American idea of white has shifted through time says that this is as much cultural as racial.
Being first generation, I know lots of immigrants. Brown people who weren't born with privilege and come into it later in life, can be the worst because we don't realize that we've joined the disenfranchisers.
I'm naturally introspective & may have figured it out eventually, but my wife accelerated the process. She's white, aware, & understood the implications and responsibilities of privilege. It's embarrassing, but at the start of our relationship, I was "whiter" than she was.
Also, the race conflict framing benefits the regime whose supporters are mostly not poor. The ones who are poor won't grasp the sociological implications of something they're not fully enjoying. Those people are potential allies & don't need to understand perfectly to join us.
Ok I finally got this video edited. Check out "Veganism: Not Just For the Super Rich".
There is a lot of misinformation regarding veganism / plant based diet being something reserved for the super rich or privileged.
I find it _interesting_ that most modern portrayals of fairy tales involve kings, knights, princesses and so forth - the privileged aristocratic classes on top of the social pyramid. Even if the protagonist of such a tale is poor, they are still secretly from privileged parents, and their story tends to be about reclaiming their "rightful" (i.e. privileged) place in society.
Meanwhile, the _vast_ majority of German folk tales I have read feature peasant protagonists. Nobles _might_ appear, but they are the villains as often as they are a force for "good".
Reframing fairy tales to focus on protagonists of privileged birth and relegating low-born characters to sidekicks and background characters was a _choice_. It's so pervasive nowadays that most modern-day storytellers don't even realize that they are making this choice, since they have accepted this as "normal". But it is a choice nonetheless.
And if we are telling stories of our own, we need to ask ourselves what choices we are making when developing our protagonists.
The 3 stages of accountability for a privileged white male #comic #privilege
