On privilege

I thought I had published this somewhere, but I cannot find it so ... from   “Witches: Check Your Privilege #OcculTea”   https://youtu.be/WLy6fj8cB1Y?si=uVbRnRKFc58Bf5SW   (which is a video I watched as part of my Pagan activities, and commented on initially on my main blog - e.g., here) at around 22:40: 

“It’s not a bad thing to have privilege; in this case it’s not a bad thing to have thin skinny privilege - if you understand that you have it and you understand that others don't, maybe amplify their voices. If you understand that you have white privilege over a person of colour. maybe amplify their voice. Because people will naturally think that you are more authoritative because you are ... more pleasant to the way that their eye has been trained. And having a platform allows us to make a minuscule change in what the common perception is, because this is still a media. So that is what I hope the community can do: break through their own unconscious biases and take acknowledgement of their own privilege. Privilege is not a bad thing to have, you don’t have to deny that you have it because it’s a dirty thing; you need to understand it and embrace it, so that you can put it to the service of those who don’t.”  

That puts a, to me, new light on the topic ...  It’s like being rich: what matters is what you do or don’t do with it - including what you do or don’t do to get and/or keep it ... 

 

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