Noname goes off on Twitter: "whiteness irritates me"

Don’t tell me to shut up, explain yourself like an adult. I’ll try to keep what you say in mind, and I just ask you do the same.

I appreciate the detail in your response, and I apologize for my tone

It's hard to tell where in this thread people are just being ignorant vs people actually asking questions in good faith like you are, so I'll respond in good faith

The main conflict that you're addressing here is the intersection of class and race, and you're absolutely correct that they influence people's experience in America in ways that are complex and not always easily quantifiable. Of course Blue Ivy will have better access and privileges than most white people in this country as a child of billionaires. She will still likely have a different experience than a white child of white billionaires, but those differences are drastically smaller because she has access to the most important resource of all; capital. Systematic repressions of power and privilege are unlikely to affect her much because she has access to the one power that trumps every other in capitalism.

My main disagreements with your points lie in your discussion of earning power, education, and criminal justice. White people in general are much more likely to be in a more prosperous economic situation than other ethnic groups in America due to the laws and history of this country. Asian people are a particular standout because America has done its best to only allow relatively upper-class people to immigrate here, as opposed to being a colonizedpopulation like American black people are. You;re

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