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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sigh. Racism is alive and well. If you can't see the privilege oozing in this thread you are willfully blind because it benefits you to not see.[/quote]

(This is not sarcastic): Help me see it. Please quote from something said here that oozes privilege. It is so hard to know what I am saying or thinking wrong, because sometimes it seems like nothing I do is right as a white person attempting to talk about race. Sometimes I don't know how possibly to help except just be sorry for who I am and what I represent.[/quote]

It's very privileged never to have been in a position where you don't notice what effect the whiteness of the most heavily marketed and desirable characters -- Disney princesses -- has on young girls who aren't white. It's privileged not to have had to worry about whether your daughter will grow up wishing she was another race, or thinking that girls are prettier when they are white, or preferring white beauty standards.[/quote]

Toni Morrison wrote on this subject, as I recall, in a book called The Bluest Eye or something like that.  Dolls patterned after the blonde ideal (false ideal, don't misunderstand me now) have negative effects.  Look to Disney's African American role model Doc McStuffins as an example for all children.  Her stuffed friends come in all shapes, sizes and colors.[/quote]

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