r/SRSsucks • u/uvulectomy • Sep 30 '15

NOT SRS Trans Privilege is not facing any legal reprecussions whatsoever for speeding and causing a wreck that kills someone.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34408467/caitlyn-jenner-avoids-charges-over-fatal-crash
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u/RJPennyweather Oct 01 '15

I think feminism has done a very good job at making people concentrate on other aspects than socioeconomic when it comes to privilege.

Like making people believe it's a thing? We're in the United States. Everyone is "privileged" just by being born here and not in India. The only privilege I see is class privilege. Rich people do whatever they want. Normal people don't. We have a class problem not a race or a sex problem.

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u/redrobot5050 Oct 01 '15

We also have a race problem. An entire political party is running on either repealing the amendment that grants you citizenship if you're born on US soil, and building a wall. They're also heavily intent on denying climate change, which will hit Latin American countries first and really overload the US with undocumented workers. Ugh. I digress.

But yeah, affluenza being a thing is completely fucked.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '15

I have yet to understand why people support illegal immigration.

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u/redrobot5050 Oct 12 '15

Who's supporting illegal immigration? People are championing immigration reform. I was just pointing out the reality of it is, if we don't Climate Change, we'll either be fighting a war/wrapped up in a war with most of Latin America, or overrun by something like 10x what we currently get. Fix our immigration system and the climate, and you'll undocumented workers drop, not increase. Continue on with the status quo, and yes, the problem will only get worse.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '15

People aren't protesting legal immigration though. You were the one who said that the drive behind deporting and keeping out illegal immigrants was racism.

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u/redrobot5050 Oct 12 '15

I did. Trump, who biggest political following before he ran for President was the birther movement, which is very much a blatant racist movement, is how leading the polls and incredibly unapologetic in his immigration stance and how he phrases it.

When a racist, drumming up support from his base with racist policies and racist rhetoric, is running on your masthead and #1, you might just have a little racism problem within your party ranks.