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… I have a friend who actually thinks the reason people hate Plebcomics is for “telling the truth”, rather than lying, strawmanning, queercoding, and repeatedly using racist, transphobic, and homophobic…
..I can quote the comic here.
“I do have privilege being white” she is simply talking about the fact that many many of you tell us we cannot complain about anything because we are white and cishet. If anyone is wilfully misunderstanding privilege here, its you.
You’re friend is 100% correct is a valid response to “this is what my friend thinks”.
Also gonna add, I come from Australia which was recently ranked as the worlds 3rd most racist country. Nothing to be proud of. However, you won’t see cops killing poc here.
Yeeeeaaaaahhhh you will. There’s been a load of posts about this, including a screenshot from a TV show discussing the issue. It’s actually a huge problem. It just takes the form of “brutality and murder while in custody”, not “shooting them on the streets.”
You won’t see them getting kicked out of supermarkets for wearing a hoody.
That’s… not actually a thing you see much in the US, either. You see black people presumed guilty of shoplifting for being black, and harassed or having police called upon them.
Two things you might see is an aboriginal woman having to provide ID with her healthcare card as most do not have them and actually steal them (not stereotype, fact. Mums a medical receptionist)
I’d request more than anecdotal evidence before accepting it as fact.
or in the less civilised parts of Australia you might see a nonchain convenience store clerk refuse service to an arabian.
Basing a ranking system on one country is inherently flawed.
Good thing that’s not actually being done.
Don’t even get me started on how in South Africa is reveresed roles.
I’ve heard this before, but I’m just not sure if it’s actually true to any degree, or where I’d actually find out more about the current situation. I do know that for a long time, black people were a minority group while being a statistical majority under Apartheid and earlier discriminatory policies, and that sort of thing tends to have lasting effects on a population, whatever those might be.
Anyone with more knowledge wanna chime in?
If there was a cop wrongfully killing a poc in Australia on the news recently, how come I have no idea what you’re talking about? I’ve heard about a lot of coos killing poor people of mixed race but mostly white (like a white woman who refused to leave her exboyfriends house cause she was homeless)
Anecdotal evidence? Sure, ok most recently was an aboriginal mother of 3. Kept calling one of her children (I can’t remember the exact names) Bob. Bob this, bob that. Bob sit down. So when it was time to check in for the appointment, the child registered on the card was actually Rob.
This and similar happens all the time. The aboriginal community isn’t huge were I live (I’ve only seen like 6 in my 21 years, two were in a traveling diversity education group from primary school and one was a professor at uni) but according to Mum it happens at least once a month.
You are making a ranking system. You know I was on someones blog the other day, they had a list of disprivileges? Like fucking boy scout badges. You have people listing every thing before they actually state an opinion. “I’m a panromantic nonbinary demisexual girlfag black hindu with PTSD and depression recovering from bullemia. My favourite homestuck character is-”
I know it wasn’t intended to be a ranking system but that is how its being used in practice. I’ve literally been told I’m the “lowest on the chain” for being white and straight.
As for South Africa, it was Apartheid up until like the 1970s, but because black people outnumbered white people tenfold, they assumed power. Now most white people are homeless, or in labour jobs if they’re lucky. And SA isnt the only country where white people are at a disadvantage either.
The whole thing is based on the media capital of the world at the time of writing.