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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Example: I’m queer and white. I have white privilege, but some people have straight privilege over me.

But then privilege is a consequence of the society, not the individual. You can be in a community that doesn't discriminate, at which point neither applies. You can be in a community that overvalues queerness or undervalues whiteness.

The way the last comment frames it as ‘the privileged’ precisely plays into the problem it’s addressing.

People who bought homes in the 90s, when real estate was more in line with wages, benefited from the historical moment. You can call that privileged.

And people inherit property from family. That's definitely a privilege.

But it all overlooks a broader system of cheap lending for mega-rich financial institutions, which allow groups like Blackrock and Berkshire Hathaway to become some of the largest landlords in the country.

Talking about "white privilege" or "millennial privilege" or "native born privilege" in the face of a historic real estate consolidation at the hands of a tiny aristocratic elite seems trite and misplaced.