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Posted by: Samuel Day Fassbinder ( Pomona Valley Greens, USA ) on September 10, 1997 at 16:14:54:

In Reply to: how about a conclusion sam, just one, sometime. posted by Kevin on September 10, 1997 at 11:22:42:


: Hell sam, they got you....and the internal network of support is non existent?

For some, there is much less of an internal network of support than the network you claim to have. I see these people every day. Would telling you the details of this involve another "boring display of fact finding," or would you be interested to know?

: What is your point ted, that inequalities exist? Who does not know that? Are we hear to correct all of this, or simply acknowledge this? I am unclear by any of your responses, they do not seem to have any real framework, or direction, a lot of huge ideas with little cause for implementation.

Read carefully, and I will reformat the previous post in a way that makes it more intelligible. My name is Sam. I argued in the previous post that the amount of time one works each day has no demonstrable relationship to one's position of privilege.

Privileged people work a lot, so do those with very little privilege, like the women in the free-trade zones of Malaysia, or like the people who I see every day selling flowers or oranges on the freeway onramps here in California.

Therefore, your comment about working hard has no bearing on a discussion of privilege. You may be privileged, or you may be not-privileged. Telling us you work hard has no bearing on our understanding of whether you are one or another.


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