this post in support of gentrifying "cleaning up" Market street (by allowing louder signage!) actually has "Great White Way of San Francisco" (emphasis mine) on their faux-nostalgic photograph.
Paging doctor Freud, your white-privilege is showing.
Also... not to get into too much here but just because I'm looking at all that very closely right now, i don't think "your white privilege is showing" is actually an insult. It's always showing no matter what we do, we can't help it. What's wrong IMO is when we can't acknowledge it. I know you know all this, but words also matter so I wanted to point out that that way of putting things didn't work for me.
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Date: 2009-09-23 10:57 pm (UTC)WTF?
Also... not to get into too much here but just because I'm looking at all that very closely right now, i don't think "your white privilege is showing" is actually an insult.
It's always showing no matter what we do, we can't help it.
What's wrong IMO is when we can't acknowledge it.
I know you know all this, but words also matter so I wanted to point out that that way of putting things didn't work for me.
Love you.
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Date: 2009-09-23 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 11:11 pm (UTC)Though not as elegant I guess.