"Privileged people will demand facts. Statistics. Your stories about oppression? Your experiences? They are not enough to convince privileged people that what you have experienced is real. After all, you are not a white man. Your experiences don’t automatically gain the “normal and natural” status. Your experiences may not be credible at all. They have no reason to believe your stories, because again, as white men, they don’t and can’t share them. Nevermind that all they have is anecdotal evidence, their personal experience to back up their beliefs. They are white. And male. And many other normal, natural things that make their opinions and experiences normal and natural…and yours kind of aberrant and not trust-worthy."
Robot Heart: Sex, Religion, and Politics (via amberlrhea)
so true.
(via so-treu)
and when you do give them stats, they end the discussion with an arbitrary insult
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This is why I pretty much ignore everyone who asks for statistics. Go look them up your fucking self and take your whiteness-soaked logistics with you.
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This is absolutely, embarrassingly idiotic. Everyone should be prepared to defend their perception of reality that they assert is indicative of a larger-scale social interaction patterns with FACTS. Good on you if you have anecdotal “evidence”. I say “evidence” because anecdotes are as valid as kittens are in an argument. Compelling, but in the long run, useless for the sake of the discussion.
It’s sad that the non-privileged people have the weight of proving their experience, but saying “nah nah nah stop being privileged you white male” isn’t going to help the cause at all. Unless you want to be on Tumblr forever, that is.
Don’t hate on logic and statistics because there hasn’t been enough for the underprivileged.
Disclaimer: I’m an Asian bisexual female in foster care. Does that make me underprivileged enough for you to take this opinion seriously, or will you say that I’m too white to understand the plights of the oppressed?
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