Reposting my response to your "yes or no" questions that I have already submitted, that you unsurprisingly failed to read:
"You think people should not be treated equally?"
I think people deserve to have equal opportunities in their lives. I think they do not right now, usually on the basis of gender, race, and class. You disagree. For this I consider you ignorant at best, bigoted at worst. Most probably you have a hard time reading other people's words and considering their points for more than five seconds.
"You think people should have special priviledge [sic] in their behavior based upon skin color?"
I'm not sure I understand this question. What is "special priviledge [sic]" in my behavior, or anyone's behavior? Are you asking about white privilege, which is a description of an injustice, or are you asking a normative question about whether people *should* have privileges? If the former, I say yes, white privilege exists, though it doesn't deserve to. If the latter I say no, no one deserves to have a special privilege over others.
"You think minorities and women need the help of white men to succeed?"
No. But I do think that the whole of society (in which white men consistently have the most power - an injustice, to be clear) keeps people in oppressed categories oppressed, and that this should be changed. I think that all people, oppressed or privileged, have a responsibility to confront these injustices. To that end a white male has a responsibility to care about the oppression of women, minorities, and others.
But this is not because women or minorities are somehow less capable that a white male.
Your line of reasoning is essentially this:
"For thousands of years these groups have been oppressed, and as a result they live lives of oppression in the present. To suggest that they should cease to be oppressed it oppress them!"
It would be like saying supporting the end of white rule in South Africa was oppressive to the blacks because it ignored the agency of the blacks themselves. This line of reasoning is clearly nonsense and I will not be replying to it any further.
You've really gotten hung up on it in the last month, but seem not be aware that it's a dead end. It's the ugliest sort of evasion to avoid confronting actual racism and sexism - accusing those confronting it of the same.
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