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[quote=Anonymous][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]

What idiot on the right started this idea that self flagellation is the goal?! You’re the second (or same PP?) to suggest this is the end goal of acknowledging privilege. How stupid can you be? And I’m not the “mean” PP but I have no probably being mean about this at times even knowing it won’t change people’s minds but I feel like you are probably too dense to get to any ways. Instead of flogging yourself, why not just accept that you didn’t get where you are by your bootstraps but rather that as a white, able-bodied, heterosexual you had unearned advantages that helped you get where you are compared to people who aren’t you? It’s about having a little humility and humanity. [/quote]

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