Sunday, November 01, 2015

Office overheard: privilege checking

A snippet of after lunch conversation:
T: "If you're a white male, heterosexual Christian...you don't stand a chance.  Everybody's got it in for you.  Everybody's got a cause but us.  Everybody's gunning for us."
D: "I think I'm going to be bi...just because."
T: "Every time I see Michelle Obama...I think of 'Planet of the Apes.'  She is the spitting image of a gorilla."
[They went on to praise Ben Carson for a while...redemption?  I think not.]

The above quotes are upsetting.  They are normal to hear.  In my office, I hear them.  I want to say something that will make the ears on these men burn.  Would it matter?  What worries me is that it wouldn't.  What worries me most is that I won't.

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