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An Indian gentleman at the conference who is opposed to the caste system informed everybody collectively and then individually that he belongs to an upper caste.

An American gentleman who is a feminist informed everybody collectively and then every woman present individually that he has male privilege.

A white lady who defends the rights of the indigenous people of the Andes informed everybody collectively and then every person of color individually that she has white privilege.

I wonder what people did when there wasn’t such an easy way to tell people to their faces, “I’m better than you!” It must have been torture to keep all this superiority bottled up inside.

3 responses to “Superiority”

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    JaneB

    It often seems to me that these people must be terribly insecure – if one really, genuinely believes oneself to be superior in some way, why on earth would you need to TELL others, surely they’d either notice it on their own or just not matter??

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  2. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    Confession of privilege is the atheist version of Old World Catholicism.

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  3. Shakti Avatar
    Shakti

    Heh.
    It’s the just the predicate to the [identity]-splaining they’re about to do. It’s supposed to function as a humility preamble to cut off argument and subtly affirm their superiority to opine on a subject because their [identity] is worth more than the ones they’re discoursing on.
    “You should listen to me because I’m [x] and have the right opinions!”

    They simply didn’t make those announcements beforehand because the other people who actually had the identities being discussed were understood to have no worthy opinions on their own identity. So, in a way, it’s progress. Deeply annoying, repetitive pro forma progress. :/

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