Dude we've been trying to tailor words to the audience for years and it's tiring. We can be as peaceful, cordial, polite, and as choosy with word choice as we want with these kinds of conversations and people really don't wanna see themselves as a beneficiary of anything if they feel like they haven't had it easy or feel like they've done any wrong.
That's why I see people seeing themselves more so as a individual as the crux of these issues because if people can't see past themselves and think "well I'm not -ist, you shouldn't call everyone -ist" then they aren't thinking of everyone. They put themselves first more often than not.
Great post, we definitely need to get people thinking of themselves solely as a member of a racial group that needs to protect itself against those other groups that want to undermine the status of the group. Somebody else can come up with a name for it because it's really tiring to do all this thinking for everyone all the time like I do.
Wait...not I do, but...we do. But more of a certain we do than other we's do. Though when we say we, we may not mean your group, as you might be an enemy group trying to steal from our superior group. Which is superior if only because we're part of it. And by we, again, talking about certain we's more than other we's.
It ties back to the individuality part of the discussion which is a white privilege.
