She doesn't have any privilege as a 'white woman.
Where do you deduce that she doesn't? Privileges exist whether you acknowledge them or not.
he claims to have it, but she is assuming it, then apologizing for it, and expecting her listeners to admire her for acknowledging...and then using...that special privilege.
I listened to the video, I didn't hear an apology from her, merely her recognizing she has privilege. I also didn't see any expectation rather the mother was explaining that being anti-racist isn't enough, she further adds according to the New York Daily News: People must be affirmatively anti-racist. Also, if you must know this was a hearing by House Oversight Committee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties which discussed escalating violence.
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Heather Heyer’s mom tells AOC why not being racist is not enough
But her 'platform' is hers because she is the mother of a victim, and she would have that same platform no matter what her skin color is, if she spoke up.
That remains to be seen.
There are many other women of different skin colors who have spoken out, and been listened to.
Really? When? Where? You have proof, if so, show me? Show me a black parent or Muslim parent who lost someone to hate violence who had not just a local platform but global.
SHE, however, had to draw attention to her 'whiteness
Which is good. She understands her white privilege.
I mean, really; the first thing she said was, for all intents and purposes, 'look at me! I'm WHITE
Actually if you go back to the video the first thing she said was:
"I would like it as part of the record stated that Heather was killed primarily because Mr. Fields was aiming to kill someone who he thought was black. He drove into a crowd of people in support of black lives matter."
You are quite correct. However, SHE claimed that she had a platform only because she, herself, was white: that other women in her place, if they were not 'white' wouldn't have such a platform. She's wrong.
I think you missed the point.
"Her mother, Susan Bro, testified at a hearing examining the rise in white supremacist violence and said a double standard applied to white terrorism and victims compared to people of color. “I have been given a huge platform across the country and in some forms even around the world because I’m white,” Bro said. “Many black parents lose their children, many Muslim parents lose their children, Jewish parents lose their children and nobody pays attention.”
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Heather Heyer’s mom tells AOC why not being racist is not enough
Very often mothers and fathers of color speak out against racial violence but very rarely does the United States put the mirror to itself, recognizing its own internal biases. We as a society are ready to categorize Arabs who commit crimes as terrorism (even if their motive was not terrorism) yet when white murders who kill for socio-political reasons we label them not as domestic terrorists but rather people with mental issues.
Sometimes. In this case, yes. It's the 'some of my best friends are' sort of thing. It might even be unintentional:so deeply ingrained in the psyche that even she herself can't see it.
First off, this was not even the case. Second, highlighting and addressing racism is not even close to the very definition of racism. If I'm highlighting a problem that does not by default make me part of the problem, in fact it makes me part of the solution because I'm acknowledging a problem exists.
It does if that privilege doesn't actually exist
Sociological research has shown that white privilege exists. YOU just choose to not acknowledge it.
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https://www.collegeart.org/pdf/diversity/white-privilege-and-male-privilege.pdf
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/0004-5608.00182
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613320500110519
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SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class research journals
I suspect you wont read all the research articles, but I just thought I list them to show you proof that there is sociological research there that acknowledges that white privilege exists.
SHE is the one who is claiming that her 'race' is what gave her the platform to speak from.
And that is racist.
“I have been given a huge platform across the country and in some forms even around the world because I’m white,” Bro said. “Many black parents lose their children, many Muslim parents lose their children, Jewish parents lose their children and nobody pays attention.”
Again, to acknowledge one's privilege especially when it comes to ethnic privilege is not a racist thing, it is acknowledging there are certain privileges that one has. Ultimately there are many women on this planet that have gone through tragedy and unfortunately among them are women of color whose voice has not been heard. For women of color it takes something drastic for the world to hear their voice case in point, look at the mother of Emmett Till who decided to have the casket open showing the deformity of her son. The mother "wanted the world to see the barbaric act committed against her son by white men in Mississippi." Heyer's mother did the same thing, she wanted the world to know the hatred and violence purported by white supremacy.
It is that claim that makes her racist.
You really need to go back and look at the definition of what racism is.