#Privilege

I'm glad people have things they can enjoy and look forward to.If you're able to still be excited for #TheMandolorian because GC's ignorance and bigotry don't directly impact you or
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And we continue to live in a society in which the CLOWNERY of pretty men keeps being overlooked and forgotten, or even dismissed and excused for not other reason than
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As a writer, I respect the work of others.@msrachelhollis, I’m concerned. You posted a quote from Maya Angelou as if those were your words. When called out, you said you
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Please stop calling Black Women Strong as a compliment. “Strong,” is why our mortality rate in medicine is high. Strong is why our pain is not taken seriously. Strong is
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Diversity training at federal agencies is pretty mild stuff. For most, it’s a box to check off for annual training requirements. It’s hard to picture a federal agency training as
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Light Skin Keisha and Mulatto could’ve had more support if they chose different names. I said what I said. I actually like both of their music. I’m just saying their
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Is there a more, I suppose, humane explanation about the support for Trump in the Filipino diaspora imagination? One that doesn't oversimply them as merely blind to their own migrant
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THREAD//if you’re not uncomfortable, you aren’t learning. white people haven’t unlearned racism because we’re too comfortable. we’ve gotten too comfortable with looking the other way, with believing it isn’t our
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The reaction to Thessaly La Force's article about PARASITE provides an unintentional but revealing case study about how AsAms truly feel about mixed-white Asians. So many dragged her as a
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1/ One of my first TA experiences was for a course called "Cultural Diversity in Health & Illness". It was pretty awful for lots of reasons. 2/When the professor noted
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There’s a healthy false equivalence in drawing a parallel between race issues and ethnic issues. The implicit bias dynamic between our various ethnic groups is problematic but it’s not wholly
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READ THIS! I'm NOT advocating for self-diagnosis ah but I recognize some people just can't. --cont--https://twitter.com/soojinspella/status/1295832013379862528 I understand my privilege when I got diagnosed, even when that came with
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hey white people let’s talk!if you’re planning to attend a protest make sure you’re ready to LISTEN to organizers! if you can’t fully commit to that, please stay home. this
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I'm not an Old White Straight Man. And I wasn't brought up on the right-side of the tracks. But I do not want to see Older Straight White Men (even
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People ask me all the time why I am vehemently supportive of these protestors. It took me until my early 20s to learn about the privilege of my gender and
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When I was younger, my mom always told me that if I needed to call the police, I needed to make sure I told them that my father is a
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