Thread by @garius

Worth pointing out that Raab isn't stupid.

He's just never needed to learn anything to get to where he is in life, and has never bothered to broaden his horizons anyway.

Which is even more damning of both him and our society, and why things need to change.

https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1445645448077725698

And yes I know he's a trained lawyer. I know his parents worked hard to get where they did.

But that doesn't stop Raab being a beneficiary of privilege. In the same way I am for various reasons. My parents were working class. They worked HARD to give me a chance to be middle.

And, like Raab, I'm a generic, white British male. Which brings with it a whole RANGE of boosts in life.

But that's why it fucking infuriates me when people like Raab see any discussion of this as an attack on them.

Fucking grow up. Not everything is about you.

We benefitted from our privileges. That doesn't make us bad people if we were unaware of them. But if we don't try and level the playing field once we ARE aware of them then we're complicit.

And refusing to acknowledge or learn about those privileges makes one equally complicit.

Acknowledging your privileges doesn't invalidate the effort you put into things, or stop you being happy with your achievements.

It just means acknowledging that a bunch of other people didn't, and don't, ever get to enjoy that same happiness for the same effort

And that's shit

Anyway. Rant over.

But that's why Default videogame NPC motherfuckers like Raab annoy me.

Because at a certain point it requires MORE effort not to be part of the solution than to be part of the problem. And Raab is at that stage.

And I don't want people mistaking that for stupidity.

Because "LOL I didn't know that but u know what I meant" is the kind of shitty excuse I used to see, and hear about, senior lawyers in particular using all the time to excuse their lack of desire to give a shit about equality