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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]identity politics, GOP style.

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Well, to be fair, Identity Politics was indeed started by liberals.

Check your status here:

- black or African
- white
- Asian
- Hispanic
- Native American
- two or more races
- other
- in love with a tree
- polyamorous
- bisexual ambidextrous
- pansexual wiccan
- still deciding
- Brony

Each day, without fail, my middle school daughter would share some story about how another kid in her class has either switched gender or had embraced some other "form."  I can no longer keep up. [/quote]

So?  [/quote]

My rising junior dd recently filled out some info form on a college website. She was telling me that it not only presented about 10+ gender identity options, but the race question actually was phrased as "[b]which race do you identify as[/b]." I suppose we can all just choose whatever we want now. It's like identity mad libs.[/quote]

I fail to see the problem with this statement. I am half white and half URM. I always identify white. Remember your life experience is not universal to all.[/quote]
Fine. Then I'm guessing it's OK if I identify as black?[/quote]

Sure...but you KNOW you don't really want to be black.  And that is the question I ask my White friends when they start whining about issues like this.  Would you trade places with that person - not just the parts you see as an advantage, but the entire experience?  [/quote]

But maybe I would like to be black, since we are basically taught we need to be ashamed that we are white. [/quote]

so maybe you can answer the question. Would you rather be black?[/quote]

Some days, I think I might. I'm white. I grew up here, as a minority. Was excluded and ridiculed constantly. In 4th grade, someone took all my folders and drew dots on them (I have freckles). I actually wrote my college admissions essay in 1995 on the racism I had experienced. I work in an office where I am one of only two white people. This doesn't bother me. I adore my co workers, but the topics of conversation often include "white privelige" and calling white people "trump-supporters. I will never understand how this is ok. [/quote]

Not PP. But you are mixing your personal experience with a generalized and institutionalized racism experienced by blacks. What you may have gone through is not systemic or endemic. It was isolated to your case. [b]What blacks suffer is systemic and highly institutionalized. [/b]

White privilege as simple as someone giving the benefit of the doubt to you just because you are white. Let us say you didn't stop at a stop sign and someone seeing you thinks 'this stupid person' and let us say your black friend does the exact same thing and that someone thinks "this stupid black". That is white privilege right there. You as a white person was seen as an individual but the black person was seen as part of a larger community. This is subtle but still systemic racism that you won't suffer from but blacks still do. You do have white privilege whether you see it or not because you don't have the misfortune of living life as a black for your entire life. [/quote]

Why do you think the answer to systemic, institutionalized race-based discrimination is more systemic, institutionalized race-based discrimination?

What is your evidence that it's working well so far? [/quote]

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