Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
This is something I would like to focus on because I view the sentiment as the backbone of the privilege and social justice narrative. I have yet to be able to explain what I want to on it, but it does not sit right with me.

An example, a small proportion of people have been scrutinized by traffic enforcement to the degree that my brother once was. He fit the description: teenaged white male, crazy hair, and an aesthetically souped up car. He probably got pulled over a hundred times in two years because of his profile. It does not sit right with me to call his situation anti-privilege, which means it shouldn't sit right with me to call situations like my own (I drove a normal car and had a normal hair cut and I rarely entered cops' radars) privilege.
Is this you getting at your point previously where it exists but it does so for a reason, hence profiling etc being ok? I've only ever been stopped by police a few times in my life, those times when I've been committing minor crimes (i.e. pissing in the street) which I've talked my way out of & those times when I've been with black friends & been stopped for no reason. Admittedly only in London never in Manchester but at the same time most of my friends in Manchester are white, whereas in London they were much more mixed.

The reality is stereotyping exists as it's an easy way for humans to process the world, as communities get more mixed it goes away. If you create laws that destroy this mixing of people or enabling people to live among each other then it creates the tension which is the problem in the first place.

There's a difference in realising this is a thing and expecting it to disappear & it disappearing more naturally. I'm sure there are ways to force it but they tend to readjust negatively. I'm all for policies which expect x amount of people to be from certain backgrounds but they need to be done on a lower bound because that is what highlights the issue.