Comments on: Niceness privilege http://whatprivilege.com/niceness-privilege/ so you think you don't have any Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:46:15 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kascendant http://whatprivilege.com/niceness-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-1163 Kascendant Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:55:09 +0000 http://whatprivilege.com/niceness-privilege/#comment-1163 I know this is a very old post, but I stumbled across it and wanted to thank you for writing it. This was a day I needed reminding that the lovely people who look at you, appalled and awkward and horrified or exasperated, when you throw a flag on the worship of someone who did something evil, may be the "nice" guys, but they aren't the good guys. I know this is a very old post, but I stumbled across it and wanted to thank you for writing it.

This was a day I needed reminding that the lovely people who look at you, appalled and awkward and horrified or exasperated, when you throw a flag on the worship of someone who did something evil, may be the “nice” guys, but they aren’t the good guys.

]]> By: Purtek http://whatprivilege.com/niceness-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-599 Purtek Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:04:37 +0000 http://whatprivilege.com/niceness-privilege/#comment-599 <i>“Nice” people think it’s rude when, after they’ve nosed into someone’s personal business with the question “Why don’t you love Christmas like nice people do?” and the person tells the all-too-common truth: “Because my family always had knock-down drag-out fights on Christmas”.</i> I've been running through this type of "privilege" in my head a lot lately, and I'll likely write something about it myself soon. It's another layer of blaming the victim, really--the person who is being 'unseemly' is the person who calls out the crappy behaviour, the person who refuses to stay silent about the bullshit that's being thrown about, the person who reveals the illusions for what they are. Missing the point on the 'who started it' issue. I like your motto. I want to steal it. “Nice” people think it’s rude when, after they’ve nosed into someone’s personal business with the question “Why don’t you love Christmas like nice people do?” and the person tells the all-too-common truth: “Because my family always had knock-down drag-out fights on Christmas”.

I’ve been running through this type of “privilege” in my head a lot lately, and I’ll likely write something about it myself soon. It’s another layer of blaming the victim, really–the person who is being ‘unseemly’ is the person who calls out the crappy behaviour, the person who refuses to stay silent about the bullshit that’s being thrown about, the person who reveals the illusions for what they are. Missing the point on the ‘who started it’ issue.

I like your motto. I want to steal it.

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