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Druff - I read her Guardian article. I don't think she is blasting those who give her sympathy as much as blasting the fact that the only reason *you* know about this, is because they are pretty harmless white lesbians. Druff, do you not disagree? Had this attack been something like 5 black guys, 2 black women, would we have heard this? We can change around the victim configuration, but in the end stuff like this is very real and it does impact lots of things. So SJW aren't even necessarily "warriors" as much as they'd just like people who were born into privilege to acknowledge the fact. She did have a couple lines about people from the past, which is kinda lame of her.

As an example. I smoked some weed in my car in a state that it wasn't legal within past year. I got pulled over. I actually had no weed in my car, but it still reaked and perhaps I could get a DUI having just sparked up. I also had a rather large sum of money in my pocket due to a gambling related thing. Now, I don't think it would have been confiscated but this cop barely searched my car. He let me get out of the car. He didn't even pat me down. Then he did a minor search of my car for the weed and gave up while I was looking over his shoulder.... I have a strong feeling that if I had been black, or possibly just not white, things would have been handled differently. Granted, by then he had run my record and it is fairly clean and I was quite polite etc.

So I realize that I likely benefitted from being white. Are you saying this is wrong for me to do? I don't even know if the cop is wrong for behaving in such a manner, but I could at least acknowledge I got a far easier pass and will. Does this statement anger you? I find it roughly equivalent to what the woman said...
Of course privilege exists, but the mistake comes from obsessing over it and feeling it needs to be completely equalized.

It's not possible to do that.

What about good looking people? They're born with privilege.

What about very athletic people? They're born with privilege.

What about smart people? They're born with privilege.

What about kids from rich families? They're born with privilege.

What about people born in first world countries? All of them are born with privilege over almost everyone in the third world.

So if you get caught up in hating those with supposed "privilege", or hate yourself for it, then you're ust going into a cycle of negativity in which there's no exit or solution.

In some cases, the privilege isn't even uniform. For example, there are definitely privileges one experiences in life for being born male, but also privileges for being born female. Do you think the males born in the late '40s and early '50s felt "privileged" to be drafted to go to Vietnam?

The only thing she's correct about is that her situation got attention because both she and her partner are attractive white females. But as I mentioned before, that's a product of the media's longtime obsession with attractive/young/white damsels in distress -- NOT any sort of oppressive patriarchy. If I were kidnapped tomorrow, it would get zero media attention outside of poker. If a pretty 22-year-old female down the street got kidnapped, it would be all over the news. That's not the patriarchy at work.