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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Activities like this just make me angry.[b] My teen had to do one at school and came home so confused [/b]because they kept talking about white privelige and so many of the things didn’t apply to him, even though he’s white. It’s a difficult conversation to have with your kid when he’s made to feel embarrassed that he’s white and further embarrassed that he’s not coming from storybook circumstances. [/quote]

Sounds like the exercise worked. The point of these things is to make your teen question the status quo. Some discomfort is natural, and it'll help DS to perhaps empathize a little with brown-skinned minority kids who might experience this discomfort on a regular basis. BTW, a good teacher would also introduce things like economics, education, etc., and other factors that go into identity. 
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No one discloses that. The people that arrange these types of exercises are 100% focused on skin color. No one chooses the circumstances they are born into. It should be possible to teach empathy without degrading self- worth. [/quote]
OP here. It wasn’t focused on race, it was focused on all aspects of privilege- economic privilege, educational privilege, able privilege, heterosexual privilege. 
DD is white but lost “points” elsewhere.[/quote]

Jesus f#cking Christ. I have to now self flagellate because I graduated from school, have the ability to walk and prefer men?  You people are insane. [/quote]

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