Talking about privilege was never about shame. These folks aren't listening. Never were. Joe Lonsdale is gonna create whatever rhetoric allows him to keep doing whatever the fuck he wants to do.
https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale/status/1369893956071403529
Also are we gonna talk about what's underneath "the advantages I got from an awesome family?" I'm sure Joe doesn't wanna talk about what those advantages actually were. (Hint: it wasn't hard work)
https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale/status/1369893590369964032?s=19
Unfortunately, this is likely to be effective rhetoric for many white people. White men in particular. They already feel they're "under attack". The way white people respond to conflict is to create a strawman and use that to reject the moral argument.
https://twitter.com/bretjturner/status/1370055851696742408?s=19
"They're trying to shame us." (false)
"Letting people shame us is bad for our civilization." (citation needed)
"So I will reject shame and instead be proud of my advantages." (embrace white supremacy)
"Letting people shame us is bad for our civilization." (citation needed)
"So I will reject shame and instead be proud of my advantages." (embrace white supremacy)
What's hard to talk about is this. The history of Western Whiteness is a history of rejecting morality in order to enable oppression. We are trying to convince white people that the status quo is not okay. So there has to be a counter movement to keep them in the fold.
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