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-orphan-adopted-wolverhampton-oxford-university-chemistry-signatures-a7919741.html _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
