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DarkChozoGhost
03/26/17 10:57:10 AM
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Yeah. I feel kinda bad because I'm more attracted to light skin black girls than anyone else, but I know that's kinda cruel to darker skinned black girls.
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gamepimp12
03/26/17 10:57:28 AM
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The whole point of colorism is divide and conquer already.

The term light skin privilege is just stupid and inaccurate.

Darker skinned men, especially in African American communities benefit more than light skin men

While it's the opposite and more serve for African American women
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Dathrowed1
03/26/17 10:57:32 AM
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...
I like how, for once, Mal_Fet actually admitted he was wrong, but only because it put the black community at fault.

At least he admitted he was wrong and didn't know.
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foreveraIone
03/26/17 10:59:15 AM
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jeffhardyb0yz posted...
1.) It's always been a thing. Label or not. Regardless of what you call it(Colorism, privilege), it's always been a problem.

Labeling it privilege is always a problem. The word privilege causes resentment, jealously and otherism. Trying to make this a thing is always going to cause infighting. You can acknowledge it exists but trying to guilt others for it is not a good idea.

jeffhardyb0yz posted...
2.) It's not exclusive to the black population but occurs in cultures all over the world. Asian, latin america, especially the middle east.


i know
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prettyprincess
03/26/17 11:09:41 AM
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Sephiroth1288 posted...
Can you imagine a white person talking to an SJW and saying "I don't have white privilege, because I'm not attractive"

this doesn't make sense to me as a response so you would need to clarify, they aren't directly related, there are just the noted privileges of being white and also the noted privilege of being attractive and light-skinned (for its closer proximity to whiteness) making it more likely to be pushed in the media than that of your also attractive but darker counterparts
but idrc to continue down that path without specifics since, outside of modeling and such, there are also larger tangential factors at work on the media's push that vary (say acting ability, music, etc)

but I also think all of the abrasive arguments over 'privilege' stem from a largely understandable but, in this case, silly resistance to labeling
I don't believe being told to recognize you are privileged is necessarily an attempt to brand you away from your individuality, or to get you to Harrison Bergeron limit yourself, or to say you are evil for it, or anything similarly sinister, but rather is just the label saying what it means, being told or seeing for yourself "I am not X so it is likely I never experience Y" and having the trends of that applied to groups/communities at large

and I am fairly vocal with my distaste for caricaturing and there are no doubt people who group the 'privileged' negatively or make assumptions prior to seeing the outliers and exceptions, but the fighting that stems from the appearance of this word are just overboard reactions in the opposite direction and an article like this seems harmless at its worst
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Kaliesto
03/26/17 11:12:49 AM
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Why do you guys give this so much attention?
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Sad_Face
03/26/17 11:37:29 AM
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CrimsonRage posted...
Iodine posted...
Shit color-ism exists in literally every ethnic group except Caucasians.


Nope, colorism exists among white people as well. Just look at the recent Mass Effect Andromeda controversy. Couldn't make Nordic pale white skinned characters so this became "YOU CAN'T MAKE WHITE CHARACTERS!" despite every other shade of white people being available in the CC. As an Italian, that was total bullshit to me.


That's not what colorism is about GP.
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SterlingCooper
03/27/17 9:48:36 PM
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Like a light skinned slave boy
We in the mothafuckin house!
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AmonAmarth
03/27/17 10:09:26 PM
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Iodine posted...
Shit color-ism exists in literally every ethnic group except Caucasians.


it exists. particularly Northern Europeans (often Nordic) vs (in between) vs South European (Mediterraneans)
(thats Europe).

technically Caucasoid includes Indians, Arabs, Jews, etc.
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Dathrowed1
03/27/17 10:49:30 PM
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AmonAmarth posted...
Iodine posted...
Shit color-ism exists in literally every ethnic group except Caucasians.


it exists. particularly Northern Europeans (often Nordic) vs (in between) vs South European (Mediterraneans)
(thats Europe).

technically Caucasoid includes Indians, Arabs, Jews, etc.

Yeah and don't tell me Indians don't lighten their skin so they can look more like their Iranian sisters (who break their noses so they can look like their sisters in Southern Europe)
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Seaman_Prime
03/27/17 11:11:14 PM
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hmm how about we all stop judging each other based on our skin color?
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Bishop9800
03/27/17 11:15:57 PM
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Iodine posted...

I swear to God Mal is worthless shit-poster.

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3rd_Best_Master
03/27/17 11:19:22 PM
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Oh, just stop judging people based off their skin color? Just stop identity politics? Why don't I strap on my tolerance helmet and squeeze down into an acceptance cannon and fire off into diversity land, where minorities grow on multiculturalism?!
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TheCurseX2
03/27/17 11:21:12 PM
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Noob Saibot is loving 2017.
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RchHomieQuanChi
03/28/17 12:21:17 AM
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3rd_Best_Master posted...
Oh, just stop judging people based off their skin color? Just stop identity politics? Why don't I strap on my tolerance helmet and squeeze down into an acceptance cannon and fire off into diversity land, where minorities grow on multiculturalism?!


B-b-but if we just stop talking about racism it will go away!
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Dathrowed1
03/28/17 12:40:43 AM
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Well Martin Luther King did dream that people would try to see deeper than just the skin. Ironically privilege puts the focus on superficial qualities where its proponents don't try to judge people by deeper characteristics.
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Sephiroth1288
03/28/17 12:56:57 AM
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Dathrowed1 posted...
Well Martin Luther King did dream that people would try to see deeper than just the skin. Ironically privilege puts the focus on superficial qualities where its proponents don't try to judge people by deeper characteristics.

tFngRje
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Rob Cesternino
03/30/17 1:04:32 AM
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Steph Curry has light-skinned privileges
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Logos
04/01/17 12:59:50 AM
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There's a great Jordan Peterson video out there where he talks about this. Basically, leftism is self-cannibalizing because you can divide society into all these different types of groups indefinitely. There's always someone who is "oppressed" or "privileged" if you look harder enough.
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Oystersoup
04/01/17 1:05:50 AM
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buttsncoconuts posted...
um its been a thing...
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Logos
04/01/17 1:07:22 AM
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fire810 posted...
Clearly, being born with lighter skin was not something that I chose (just as being born white was not something those benefiting from white privilege chose), but I must recognize how I am privileged within my own community of folks.


what kind of lunatic, marbles-in-the-ass mentality is this? How the hell do people get like this?


By deifying some bizarre type of Marxist-socialist third wave feminist horseshit about everything being unfair, everything being oppressive, etc.
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AlabamaLove
04/01/17 1:09:25 AM
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white peeps just now hearing about this lmao?
reminds me of dave chappelle's bit about "skeet"
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TheoryzC
04/01/17 1:25:14 AM
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Your ignorance is excused, TC
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Ving_Rhames
04/01/17 1:26:44 AM
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Sephiroth1288 posted...
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills


I mean...
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Frolex
04/01/17 1:30:52 AM
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Go easy on Mal guys, it wasn't that long ago he didn't know black people could have light skin since he accused sarm of lying about being black after he saw a picture of him.
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Sephiroth1288
04/01/17 1:36:50 AM
#83:


Frolex posted...
Go easy on Mal guys, it wasn't that long ago he didn't know black people could have light skin since he accused sarm of lying about being black after he saw a picture of him.

Are you referring to that time he got butthurt after he said I only met 2/3 of the party I represent, being white and male but not wealthy, and then I pointed out that 2/3 still beat him being 1/2 black?
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Frolex
04/01/17 1:40:08 AM
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Sephiroth1288 posted...
Frolex posted...
Go easy on Mal guys, it wasn't that long ago he didn't know black people could have light skin since he accused sarm of lying about being black after he saw a picture of him.

Are you referring to that time he got butthurt after he said I only met 2/3 of the party I represent, being white and male but not wealthy, and then I pointed out that 2/3 still beat him being 1/2 black?


no, i'm talking about the time you said he wasn't black because you saw his guitar hero videos. though i guess now i know you're even more hung up on his skin color than i thought before
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boxington
04/01/17 1:41:55 AM
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it's not hard to imagine someone getting "butt hurt", if I'm reading this right, that your 2/3 being republican (I assume) somehow beats being 1/2 black
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NonDairyMiltank
04/01/17 1:57:40 AM
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of course it's a thing

it's why i don't listen to Shaun King's snowflake ass telling me my struggles
like that yuppie marshmallow shit would know what it feels like to get followed by store clerks cause of his skin
he just salty cause he knows more than 50% of him is white and no amount of screamin black lives matter is gonna make him any darker lol
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Sephiroth1288
04/01/17 2:53:23 AM
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Frolex posted...
no, i'm talking about the time you said he wasn't black because you saw his guitar hero videos.

This didn't happen.
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Sephiroth1288
04/01/17 2:54:15 AM
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NonDairyMiltank posted...
of course it's a thing

it's why i don't listen to Shaun King's snowflake ass telling me my struggles
like that yuppie marshmallow shit would know what it feels like to get followed by store clerks cause of his skin
he just salty cause he knows more than 50% of him is white and no amount of screamin black lives matter is gonna make him any darker lol

Shaun King is 100% white
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Dathrowed1
04/01/17 6:01:30 PM
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NonDairyMiltank posted...
of course it's a thing

it's why i don't listen to Shaun King's snowflake ass telling me my struggles
like that yuppie marshmallow shit would know what it feels like to get followed by store clerks cause of his skin
he just salty cause he knows more than 50% of him is white and no amount of screamin black lives matter is gonna make him any darker lol

I wouldn't listen to Shaun King because he is white.
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Ving_Rhames
04/02/17 5:29:04 AM
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Bumping for other people dumb enough to be unaware of this
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PtlessAgmnts
04/05/17 11:29:14 PM
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Dathrowed1 posted...
NonDairyMiltank posted...
of course it's a thing

it's why i don't listen to Shaun King's snowflake ass telling me my struggles
like that yuppie marshmallow shit would know what it feels like to get followed by store clerks cause of his skin
he just salty cause he knows more than 50% of him is white and no amount of screamin black lives matter is gonna make him any darker lol

I wouldn't listen to Shaun King because he is white.

lol
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