Okay, FIRST of all, before you jump to conclusions that you’ve already clearly jumped to, I didn’t vote. Why? Well, because I’m a rich white racist asshole, obviously.

I don’t really think it’s about privilege so much as wanting more than a two-party system. Plus Clinton alienated many progressives with her middle-of-the-road sentiments.

No, no, I mean-it makes sense. I just-I have this weird positionality right now at school where I said last year I was mixed-race, and now I’m clear with the Native American group on campus that I really don’t know my heritage. They’re really welcoming and clear they want me around, which is really nice of them. I…

I think most things parents do as punishment don’t really impact the child the way they intend. I work with kids now and many of them are badly behaved, apart from having low attention spans...I had to yell at a white boy [his privilege is important to the story] who literally dragged another child [a Brown boy] down…

Thank you. Yeah it was. I mean, it still has been. Recently I spent a few hours being examined in a psych ward because I felt suicidal after an “argument” with my sister, which was mostly her telling me I was so fat I deserved to die etc. Every time something like that happens or she says something like that, my…

I mean, I get it, but also it’s kind of offensive to me. I have white privilege but I’ also Jewish, which is totally distinctive from most of what people consider “white culture.” Lumping all white people into one category and one culture totally makes invisible my people’s history of being persecuted by most of the…

I mean, I don’t think shame is a successful longterm strategy, though—mostly because people who are deeply racist and okay with it are, in my experience, immune to shame. Meanwhile people who are already trying are particularly vulnerable to being shamed, but I don’t think that people with the intention to alter their…

WORD. It’s just a fucking shirt.

I mean Trump was appealing to white people, specifically and consistently. So I think it’s pretty clear that strategy was successful, and that his voter base was white people.

I mostly agree with you, but, u-and I say this respectfully-it’s not ALL white people’s responses to racism, and it definitely does not have to be. It definitely is how SOME white people respond to racism, but-I mean this is probably why people feel they need a damn t-shirt. I understand how you could come to this…

I mean yeah. But also-I mean I appreciate you acknowledging your privilege. I also didn’t really think Trump would win, although part of me was certain he was a serious candidate a year ago before anyone took him seriously in liberal circles. Also though, I’ve spent my life watching rich white men take what they…

Um guys? There’s also the reality that wearing these shirts might start much-needed convos with OTHER white people. Like, they might not be an attempt at convos or communication with POC at all.

Or maybe some of us have bigger stuff to deal with, like jobs and school and basic survival, than thinking about who’s wearing what shirt?

Hey, guys? I’m actually allergic to gluten. Please quit with the gluten jokes, especially because actually way more POC than white ppl are allergic to gluten.

I mean there are a whole list of films. I suggest watching films made by POC addressing white privilege, like Dear White People.

Hey can I ask you something? Because you seem reasonable.

I mean, that in itself is a kind of privilege though. I’m super curvy because I’m of mixed ethnicity and I’m disabled and poor and don’t have a gym membership because between school and work, I don’t have time. So the opportunity to find a sugar daddy is not within my reach, even though I have white privilege.

True. But intersectionality is also a thing and some of those privileges don’t apply to all white women. For example, I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety, so if I report a sexual assault [and I know this from past experience] the cops are like yeah fucking right, gtfo.

True.

Yeah I love it [jk] when white women talk about white feminism derisively. Like, who the fuck do you think they’re talking about? YOU.