"My concern is that most of your responses seem to be suggesting that privilege is a neutral state which people can't help having and which they don't really need to examine, and it's very unreasonable to expect them to."
What have I said that gives you that impression? It is certainly not something I agree with, and yes, I have seen the cartoon. I think I was pretty clear, I think that far from it being unreasonable to think they should examine this, it is actually appalling that someone (Boris in this case) would make no effort to find out about others' situations and so to waste the privilege they were born with.
I said all this way up there: "I am not talking about Boris, I agree he does not care to and is a waste of privilege who nobody in their right mind would have voted for." in reply to you saying "I think it's quite valid to suggest that a person who appears to have no interest in understanding what life is like for the majority of their electorate is probably not best qualified for the job."
Again, if you don't disagree with what I said, then why did you reply to me telling me I didn't see things? If you've persuaded yourself that I hold some position that you disagree with, and you want to argue that point, I'm not going to play along, mostly because as far as I can tell we don't disagree and I certainly do not hold the views you think I do.
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Date: 2008-05-08 08:52 pm (UTC)What have I said that gives you that impression? It is certainly not something I agree with, and yes, I have seen the cartoon. I think I was pretty clear, I think that far from it being unreasonable to think they should examine this, it is actually appalling that someone (Boris in this case) would make no effort to find out about others' situations and so to waste the privilege they were born with.
I said all this way up there: "I am not talking about Boris, I agree he does not care to and is a waste of privilege who nobody in their right mind would have voted for." in reply to you saying "I think it's quite valid to suggest that a person who appears to have no interest in understanding what life is like for the majority of their electorate is probably not best qualified for the job."
Again, if you don't disagree with what I said, then why did you reply to me telling me I didn't see things? If you've persuaded yourself that I hold some position that you disagree with, and you want to argue that point, I'm not going to play along, mostly because as far as I can tell we don't disagree and I certainly do not hold the views you think I do.