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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well there’s a difference between being stigmatized for an individual trait — fat, lazy, stupid, etc — and being stigmatized because you’re part of a racial or ethnic group, which is something you can’t escape no matter what you do.[/quote][b]Yes, there's a difference and I wouldn't say it's okay for a white kid to be mocked for being white.[/b]  But the reality for many white children is that they belong to a powerful racial group that is widely accepted in society generally.  It's not always easy to be in the numerical minority in a school but the fact is that white people work and live and shop in many places where they are seen as fitting in and "safe." A few insults will be uncomfortable even painful to a white kid in a majority minority school but it doesn't have the same kind of impact over all.  ~mom of white kid who went to DCPS schools and survived.  Also, I was called a "white bitch" two times in my majority black neighborhood.  Not pleasant but not an issue given all the other white privilege I have.[/quote]

[b]I think my actual point was that it's worse to be stigmatized because you're black or white or whatever than to be teased because of some trait more individual to yourself. [/b] My response was to the poster before me who seemed to be claiming the opposite.  I certainly acknowledge that whites like myself are more likely to be accepted and even welcomed  by other racial groups than vice versa.   However, you being called racist names as an adult is no way equivalent to a child subjected to the same kind of bullying.[/quote]Yes, I think I noted that.  Apologies if that was not apparent.[/quote]

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