Hell, the same ones denying male privilege are denying white privilege

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11. maybe it is an "invasion" of working class white males

Here's an article I read the other day.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gina-crosleycorcoran/explaining-white-privilege-to-a-broke-white-person_b_5269255.html

Note the initial reaction

"Years ago some feminist on the Internet told me I was "privileged."

"THE F&CK!?!?" I said.

I came from the kind of poor that people don't want to believe still exists in this country. Have you ever spent a frigid northern-Illinois winter without heat or running water? I have. At 12 years old were you making ramen noodles in a coffee maker with water you fetched from a public bathroom? I was. Have you ever lived in a camper year-round and used a random relative's apartment as your mailing address? We did...."

And then she goes on to explain intersectionality, which explains how, even though you are in the burn unit of a hospital with second degree burns over 80% of your body, you can STILL have "white male privilege".

Or let's use a real example - Reginal Denny.

"His skull was fractured in 91 places and pushed into the brain. His left eye was so badly dislocated that it would have fallen into his sinus cavity had the surgeons not replaced the crushed bone with a piece of plastic. A permanent crater remains in his head despite efforts to correct it. Denny had to undergo years of rehabilitative therapy, and his speech and ability to walk were permanently damaged."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Reginald_Denny

Thanks to the concept of intersectionality, you can explain to him how he can still have white male privilege in spite of the fact that his skull was fractured in 91 places and he had to undergo years of rehabilitive therapy and his speech and ability to walk were permanently damanged.

You COULD do that, I guess, and then get also mad at him when he failed to embrace the concept. (He's just not enlightened, like George Clooney, quoted (and pictured) above.)

I have to wonder though, why would anybody want to?

p.s. Yes, and speak of the devil and he often appears.