@mysribbons@livisspears Also, the concept of national privilege only makes sense in a framework where you treat every member of a nation as a monolith.
@mysribbons@livisspears Again, it is not individual oppression when it occurs on a systemic level. Also, the U.S. government having greater access to resources doesn’t mean anything when those resources are not passed down to the people or distributed equally among them.
@AriGloverBee@noirgallery__ People can appreciate that she is repping her culture without characterizing her as a minority since that would entail she has had to overcome struggles resulting from her identity as a white woman
@AriGloverBee@noirgallery__ White people ride at dawn the second they get the slightest taste of underrepresentation. It is normal for the media you consume to reflect the culture of where you live. This is not a Slovakian woman breaking down barriers when those barriers were not there to begin with.
@noirgallery__ Right, I do not understand why people are trying to act like being an ethnic minority is the same as being a racial minority when our society focuses on race above all else. At the end of the day she is still a white woman who doesn’t face the same structural barriers as WOC!
@mysribbons@livisspears I am talking about structural oppression. I think the issue is that you are grouping Americans together as a monolith to make the claim that they all benefit from living in a wealthy country, effectively overlooking the various political & socioeconomic factors that impact this.
@mysribbons@livisspears The distinction is useless because it is an overgeneralization based on a limited world view where Western = “good” and other societies = “behind” or inferior.
@mysribbons@livisspears I already emphasized that the classifications you’re using for countries are eurocentric, oversimplified, and unproductive. Like “developing” from the perspective of who? Also, what scenario are you referring to? The existence of hierarchies?
@mysribbons@livisspears Living in a wealthy country is not a privilege for everyone when that wealth falls into the hands of a few and is used to construct a hierarchical system that oppresses those at the bottom.
@mysribbons@livisspears The rigid classification of countries completely overlooks systemic issues + the complexity of those countries. I would argue that the U.S. is not a “first-world country” for all of its citizens.