収束ゾーンでのライフ: Life in the Convergence Zone

because motivation for action isn't important? That's nothing more than an appeal to guilt to get people to act.

You don't get people taking your side in a way that matters by guilting them into it by yelling privilege at them or telling them how they have a choice and the other group doesn't.

They have to buy into it, body & soul, and believe it to be true. Then they run with it.

"Privilege" is one of the words that has driven me out of more dialogues with groups I am in support of, because I have no interest in being told about how goddamned privileged I am by those who are not. since the Hierarchy of Privilege Finger Pointing can only go from the disempowered towards the empowered.

Do I think 'privilege' exists? abso-fucking-lutely.

Do I think it gets trotted out instead of actual reasoned conversation more often than not? You bet.

"If you cared, you'd do this."

Gosh, then I guess every time I don't meet your external standard of behavior, it demonstrates that I don't honestly care. At some point, that leads to people genuinely not caring anymore. If you're going to be hanged as a thief for stealing a loaf of bread or for robbing the treasury, why not at least steal enough to live well until you get caught?