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How is being able to turn the other cheek privilege? *Assuming it is*. This is not a political/social debate of *whether it is*. I want the reasoning behind the statement.
In: Culture
If I turn the other cheek as a cute white chick it usually only goes but so far, and I can usually run to people bigger and more powerful than me to help if something gets really bad.
If you don’t fit the traditional image of someone society wants to protect, you just die.
So if I go to a bar and a random dude tries to snatch me up, there’s fairly good odds I can get him removed so I can enjoy my night in peace. The more he harasses me my odds of having others intervene on my behalf go up a lot. But I look kinda like a tall busty KStew, so I have a lot of features that the society I live in considers desirable and worth protecting.
If I were a black chick, or a black trans girl, or even just had less features our society desires, like say I was fat or particularly assymetrical, they still might intervene on my behalf, but they’d be less likely to. They’d still be more likely to intervene as someone harassed me more and more, but still not as much as they are with me as a “pretty” white chick. I’d have to fight back right away or the people around me might just let a fucker murder me.
TLDR If I turn the other cheek most of the time someone sticks up for me eventually. If I tried to do that without privilege, I’d be dead.
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