That article made me spitting mad. Because while yes, it's true that most forms of discrimination are an excercise in privilege (one group positioning itself 'above' another, and thus creating a rank difference), that doesn't mean you can collapse racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, classism, discrimination against the disabled, etcetera, into one giant, all-purpose -ism and call it a day. No. Each of those issues expresses itself differently in the real world, and they can compound or offset each other. They are related, sure; they have similarities, sure; but they are NOT all the same thing. It is an exercise in privilege to even think that you can conflate them.
*headdesk* Sometimes I am so ashamed of my religion.
I think that sense of shame is compounded because I do not have a college degree or a white-collar job. I have privilege because I am white and I come from an upper middle-class family with a lot of higher education, but at the same time, my current economic status is working class. This seems to make some of my fellow UUs uncomfortable. And also, I was raised UU, which means the common denominational 'story' of losing faith and feeling anger against your childhood religion completely and utterly fails to speak to me -- I feel excluded from the mainstream discourse of the religion I grew up in, for goodness sake!
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Date: 2009-03-09 07:01 am (UTC)*headdesk* Sometimes I am so ashamed of my religion.
I think that sense of shame is compounded because I do not have a college degree or a white-collar job. I have privilege because I am white and I come from an upper middle-class family with a lot of higher education, but at the same time, my current economic status is working class. This seems to make some of my fellow UUs uncomfortable. And also, I was raised UU, which means the common denominational 'story' of losing faith and feeling anger against your childhood religion completely and utterly fails to speak to me -- I feel excluded from the mainstream discourse of the religion I grew up in, for goodness sake!
Argh. Sorry, my issues are showing. :-)