This is going to be a short one,
and I've got a few thoughts swirling around in my head right now.
It feels like I'm trying to catch ghost fish or something.
Where to begin?
Oh yea, why not with white privilege?
And in Singapore's case, Chinese privilege as well.
I swear man,
for the ones in denial about its existence,
even if every single one of them were never arrested, accosted, discriminated against
based on the colour of their skin, checked by security at airports and all the other things
that minorities have to deal with on a much more frequent basis,
if you happened to come across a story in a remote corner of the world where a white girl
was briefly mistaken by the police to be brown or something and then let go immediately
once the officers realized the mistake they'd made...
All those people would be frothing at the mouth,
jumping up and down like enraged apes
claiming that "If white privilege exists, THEN WHY WAS SHE STOPPED??"
You can roll out as many statistics and facts as you want,
and they don't seem to be interested.
Nope.
So long as 100% of them don't get what they perceive to be
100% of the privileges in their imaginary list...
then they'll continue denying the very existence of white privilege.
The arguments tend to go nowhere.
So when I decide to engage,
it's less to convince them,
but to convince whoever is watching.
When you see the repeated denials,
the deflections,
and downright lies,
then hopefully you'll at the very least decide to investigate for yourself.
Well enough of that.
