On 02/09/17 10:45, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote:
Treating these efforts as discrimination means that we ignore the fact that we live in a world where not all people have the same opportunities and that people of certain gender or color are privileged.
I personally find this brush a little too broad. Gender and ethnicity aren't excellent indicators of levels of privilege. Take an orphan white boy, or a black girl born/adopted into a rich family, and this all falls apart.
A black boy adopted by a rich family almost got into Oxford, but Britain's new Brexit overlords are conspiring to make him go away:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brian-white-petition-stay-uk-...