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Lumifer comments on Open thread, July 29-August 4, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 06 August 2013 11:55:59PM 8 points [-]

It is hard to get people to realize the extent and import of their privilege, to acknowledge that certain social inequities that are of minor significance when viewed from a privileged position are in fact deeply oppressive from the perspective of the marginalized. ... . The best way to acquire that sort of information is to listen to anecdotes from a number of marginalized people

Heh. Well, there was a period in my life when I was very very poor. No money to take public transportation (so I walked), no money to buy a can of soda (so I drank water), etc. I lived in a mostly-black area of the city with gunshots heard at night every week or so.

Unfortunately for your argument I'm not a leftist or a progressive, I do not get hysterical about social inequities and you probably would say that I don't realize the extent and import of my current privilege (I'm not very poor any more).

Belief update time? :-D