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The last time I saw someone who was on the other side of the "white privilege" debate, I was talking to a Caucasian trust fund kid who told me people treated him differently because of his socio-economic status. Well until now, I guess.
vivant, thanks for sharing the other article. I also couldn't agree more to your response to freedom's statement.
beautifool,
What is new in this article? I don’t think people are talking about this article for the novel ideas that Dr. Jilani presents. In fact, most of the issues she talks about aren’t new at all – we (the generic we for “brown” people) experience them in our daily lives. However, the fact that the incident took place in the White house of all places is revolting and it brings into light the rarely discussed white privilege in a completely different manner. Racial discourse and racial politics isn’t always about new ideas; it is about people sharing their experiences and making this discourse happen in the first place. After all, every individual’s experience is different, and that is what the discourse is all about.
Regarding the use of GRE words (although I wouldn’t use that term), I see where you are coming from. It grinds my gears when people actually use the dictionary to insert difficult words into their arguments just to make it sound more complex. However, I know for a fact that behoove isn't doing so - nor he needs to. Getting riled up when someone writes "improve" and then google-replaces it with "ameliorate" (where the former word would suffice) is one thing, but denouncing one's arguments just because of their superior(for the lack of a better term) command in English is another. One could very well argue that the language you have used in your arguments would sound esoteric to some other people. Does that ruin the argument? Not at all.
भाषा भनेको सबैले सिक्ने कुरा हो र सबै जना सबै भाषा मा पोख्त हुदैनन्. तर, जब एक व्यक्ति ले आफुलाई सजिलो लाग्ने भाषा मा आफ्नो विचार प्रस्तुत गर्दछ, तब उसको विचारधारा ले चलिरहेको बहस लाइ नै बिगार्यो भन्ने कुरा संग मा सहमत छैन. साझामा ठुल्दाई, बिहुब तथा अन्य दिग्गज ले प्रयोग गर्ने शब्द बुझ्न कहिले काही मलाई पनि गार्हो हुन्छ, तर उहा हरुले dictionary र शब्दकोश पल्टाएर लौ आज मा यो यो शब्द प्रयोग गर्छु भनेर लेख्छन होला त ? उनि हरु ले दैनिक रुप मा जुन भाषा प्रयोग गर्छन, तेही भाषा मा आफ्नो विचार प्रस्तुत गर्दछन. भासिक क्ष्मता लाइ मानिस को बौद्धिक क्ष्मता संग तुलना गर्नु उचित हुदैन, तर कसैको को विचारधारा लाइ नै पाखा लगाएर "लौ तिम्ले लेखेको अरुले बुझेनन्", तेसैले तिमीले यो बहस नै बिगार्यौ भन्नु कति उचित होला र?