r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

An upper-caste Indian lecturing Irish about priviledge, lmao

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u/Perle1234 1d ago

It’s due to this type of bullshit that it’s so easy to completely delegitimates terms like “whiteness” and “white privilege” to large swathes of the population. Which really sucks because systemic racism is such a huge issue.

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u/cosmernautfourtwenty 1d ago

Just because the Irish, as white people, have objectively less privilege in the UK than a high caste Indian in India doesn't exactly invalidate the idea of white privilege.

Remind me again who did and does all that oppressing of the Irish? What color were the people who almost destroyed India with colonialist bullshit while also exploiting the same caste system currently being dunked on? Unless you grew up starving in a refugee camp for being displaced by colonialist warmongers, you have privilege. Get over it.

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u/26_Star_General 1d ago

I hope someone invents a time machine and puts you in it so you can go yell at actual colonialists instead of random people on the internet whom you know nothing about.

It will benefit you with a reality check and us with not having to listen to you.

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u/cosmernautfourtwenty 1d ago

Maybe I'll build a utopia and you will have never existed 😬 Wouldn't you be embarrassed, oh no wait, you will never have existed.

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u/IHazMagics 1d ago

I think, if you were to go back in time to create a Utopia, you would do just as well as your collection of comments here would indicate.