February 26, 2012
"People who are privileged by the system can feel guilty about this, or we can use these privileges to attack the system. Those of us with white skin don’t face as much attention from the police or store security. We could say, therefore, that it’s a privilege to shoplift. Or we could rob those stores blind, sell the merch, and donate the proceeds to our own struggles and the struggles of people who can’t shoplift so easily. By using privilege as a weapon rather than obsessing over it, we actually undermine it, because stores that intentionally conduct racial profiling or more passively give in to the common prejudices will be hurt economically. If they shift surveillance to well dressed white shoppers, then white privilege, which helps prevent rebellion, erodes a little."

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Peter Gelderloos, Lines in Sand

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interesting. 

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Hmmm…

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I’ve been saying it for a while now … betray your privilege, use it wisely.

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This is brilliant.

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Probably part of the reason that I always dress in suitjackets when I shoplift. That, and that fact that I always dress in suit jackets anyway.

[I’m really white sometimes].

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