hector_rashbaum | Privilege

So...I was cleaning out my Documents folder this morning, and I found the beginnings of this long-winded blather about privilege and intersectionality...and I was gonna finish it up, but I realized it boiled down to just a couple sentences.

There is no finite number of privilege/oppression systems that can exist at any one tume; therefore, the existence of one oppression/privilege system doesn't negate the existence of others. Lack of one set of privileges doesn't mean you can't benefit from another (I see this a lot in discussions of white privilege: "I can't have white privilege, I'm poor!" No, what you don't have is class privilege - you still have white privilege [and depending on the person: straight, male, etc. privileges]). The fact that one oppression/privilege system may be more extreme/harsh/whatever than another doesn't mean the latter doesn't exist.

Any questions?

And from now on, rather than dignifying any "you can't have problems because other people do" comments with original responses, I'm just gonna link to this post. Because I do not have the energy.