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373 "Notes on White Privilege" w/ Adam Davidson and Thomas Chatterton Williams

The Fifth Column

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I'm Glad You Also Didn't Threaten to Kill Me if I Didnt Take That In.

When whiteness is fundamentally like a privilege to have and a superior state, it still reinforces a kind of racial hierarchy that counteracts the kind of progress we all hope to make. And so i guess what i'm saying is there's like a positive in the sense academics use it like just a factual, or not even factual, justa like, oh, here's a way to understand a place. It would be weird to do this without calling ther historic, ethnic background a rally rallying cry but also mean it does reinforce it. When are you describing a phenomenon that you see? I think i was doing the first and you were saying what you were saying  in your question about race

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