ext_6520 ([identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] matgb 2007-08-07 09:14 pm (UTC)

I don't think any of this is simple or easy to fix; if it was, it'd be fixed by now. I just think it would be a damn sight easier and simpler to fix if people would acknowledge that the problem(s) is/are there, and to do that you have to see it, or at least be willing to look if someone points at it.

I think where the difference lies between the stereotypes in that short is that although they were ALL potentially offensive stereotypes, you're perfectly correct on that score, only ONE of those stereotypes is still a group which is actively repressed by mainstream society.

And yes, white privileged middle class professional =/= mainstream society. Not that I see you as part of that class anyway. And I don't think, from what happened at Connect, that you'd be hugely comfortable being shoehorned in there anyway.

And I'm not smarter than you; I'm just better educated. You said yourself your school was crap; mine wasn't.

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