“The Holocaust was us, but that wasn’t me. We don’t see ourselves in the protagonists of Worlds Not So Greatest Hits, from the Crusades to the Slave Trade. So don’t you dare try and assume you know who I am.” We don’t see ourselves as white, straight, cisgender, and man. I got into Yale solely on my own merit,” you kid. Wasn’t it awesome back before we were seen as white, straight, cisgender, and man? “I don’t see race,” you might have said. I publish new Social Justice, Gender, & Sexuality Resources. Well, I wrote this ( originally a Facebook status) for you, Tal, as well as the rest of us: Now, there seems to be a groundswell of backlash, where privileged people ( like this super privileged Princeton student) are “denouncing their privilege” and “finally standing up for straight white guys” (HAHAHA). I’ve written about privilege here, and I’ve written my own privilege lists, inspired by Peggy McIntosh (blame her!), which have garnered a lot of hullabaloo on my site.
