Comment by barnabee
2 months ago
> I don't care about ICE one way or another,
Which is itself a political position, a privileged one at that
2 months ago
> I don't care about ICE one way or another,
Which is itself a political position, a privileged one at that
The oppositie is also true. "Caring" about ICE and wanting to flood the US with illegal immigrants is also a political position, a privileged one at that. It's a luxury belief: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_belief
What an incredibly arrogant statement. Not everyone is American for starters.
Not being an American is a privileged position regarding an issue that negatively affects Americans. It's no different than if I, an American, fail to care about, say, Hungary's slide into autocracy. I am privileged to be able to not care about it.
By that definition, "privileged" looses all meaning, as there is an infinite number of injustices in the universe, and no one is affected by all of them.
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It’s still a political position to take to not care about things that happen in other countries. (I’m not American either, not that it should matter.)