Do you like the thought of being in a minority (with AS)?

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Who is in a minority? There are millions of us.. we just like to spread out a bit...

Maybe minority is the wrong term. maligned group or something like that.

I fear my own people with our eerie milky skin and devilish eyes. it is self hating. I am told by far-right crazies that arabs and black people with out-breed white people out of existence and we will not be around anymore. I pray that day comes soon. (of course it is ridicolous and will never happen as we have better medical conditions and dont starve)

Let me try to put what was on my mind more eloquently. I think what I was trying to say was I like being "outside of society". I think it helps me have a more clear view of the world. If I was a normal middle class white guy who did really well at college, got a good job and a normal family and settled down into a wealthy life now, I might not have the view of the world I do. I might be as oblivious and small minded as some of them are, ie caring about nothing in the world but but expensive furniture and ornaments from posh shops and what my status was. I like the thought of being an outsider to the system I guess.

I don't like it when if any critisism is said of any poorer country people say "well what about the US" as if the fact that the US does wrong absolves all other countries of the ability to do wrong and puts them above critisism. I know that in lots of cases US imperialism has caused a lot of the problems of the world, but people are people and capable of wrong whereever they are. I prefer people who have a balanced view of seeing the big problem of US imperialism but willing to mention flaws of others, not seeing things in black and white with heroes against a villian. I think most intelligent people can do that though.

IBecause, white western men are the capitalists who control the rest of the money of the world, and keep the rest down. Other races, and women, and other groups are all persecuted by or unequal to the "stupid white men" as M. Moore calls them who control the world. I can see how this can make people feel better about themselves, ie I am a white male so I am in the group that will never be pushed down by the establishment.

Didnt you read the michael moore book. White males are the worst people on earth and responsible for most suffering. I think they may be ok if they have a mental disorder like AS though.

I fear my own people with our eerie milky skin and devilish eyes. it is self hating. I am told by far-right crazies that arabs and black people with out-breed white people out of existence and we will not be around anymore. I pray that day comes soon. (of course it is ridicolous and will never happen as we have better medical conditions and dont starve)

Intersectionality is an important paradigm for sociological and cultural studies, but there have been many challenges in utilizing it to its fullest capacity. Difficulties arise due to the many complexities involved in making "multidimensional conceptualizations"[2] that explain the way in which socially constructed categories of differentiation interact to create a social hierarchy. For example, intersectionality holds that knowing a woman lives in a sexist society is insufficient information to describe her experience; instead, it is also necessary to know her race, sexual orientation, class, etc., as well as her society's attitude toward each of these memberships. The theory of intersectionality also suggests that discrete forms and expressions of oppression actually shape, and are shaped by, one another. Thus, in order to fully understand the racialization of oppressed groups, one must investigate the ways in which racializing structures, social processes, and social representations (or ideas purporting to represent groups and group members in society) are shaped by gender, class, sexuality, etc. While the theory began as an exploration of the oppression of women within society, today sociologists strive to apply it to all people and to many different intersections of group membership.

For instance: If I were to say that men have social power over women, and white people have social power over black people, that's a very simplistic way of stating something that's easy to poke holes in. Kyriarchy says that a person's privilege and social power is more complicated than that. Barack Obama is a black man who has more social power than I do as a white woman. That does not negate or dismiss the fact that I have more social power than some black men in other circumstances and social structures, or that there are certain situations and social structures where I have significantly less. Et Cetera for gender, race, ability, weight, height, age, etc. They all intersect and interact in complex ways.

It is much easier to simply say that JD has more privilege than I do because he's a man. It is more accurate to say that in certain circumstances, JD's male privilege will dominate and show a clear advantage, while in others it will not help him at all.

Here's the scenario to illustrate the Kyriarchy concept:

We go out to a restaurant. JD is male, so the waitstaff may automatically assume he's paying for the meal. The food is terrible. JD's male privilege means that if he complains to the management, he's more likely to be taken seriously and get compensation. Then we both get food poisoning. my socioeconomic privilege now trumps his male privilege. I have excellent insurance and am able to expect good care and be seen the same day. JD has terrible insurance, and his only real option is emergency room or to call all around town trying to find an urgent care facility that takes his insurance. Once we're in to see our respective doctors, his (relative) thin privilege gives him an advantage because the doctor is more likely to take him seriously and treat his illness instead of blaming it on his weight and telling him he wouldn't be nauseous if he didn't stuff his face. BUT, JD is in therapy, therefore in the mental health system. In this case, my current mental health privilege may mean I will get better care because my doctor won't ask me condescendingly if I've been feeling a lot of stress lately and conclude that my illness is psychosomatic.

See the layers of privilege intersecting like that? By the way, every single one of those examples has happened to us.

The polarity conscious reactive thinking around privilege, race, gender and fat ignores the fact that our privilege is more or less apparent depending on who we're with and the social construct we're working within at the moment. Privilege doesn't change, but it's effect DOES.

If you need another example, I suggest you read this. Here we have a successful white man, whom we would think would top the privilege hierarchy in almost any situation. BUT you put him in a situation where the perception of him is that he's homeless and the talent that made him famous is not enough to get people to even make eye contact. He is suddenly labeled as "sick" and "dangerous" because the homeless are so stigmatized that his gender and race privilege does him no good whatsoever (except maybe to make him seem even more of a threat).

The point is not whether he has lost privilege. The point is DEFINITELY not to minimize those who are the victims of the various power structures or their experiences. The point is that if we want to discuss "ism"s, we need to make sure that we're taking into account the experiences of everyone who has experienced discrimination based on something not in their control. We want to make sure that in the quest for Fat Acceptance or feminism we don't step on the heads of others on the way up, we don't try to argue whether "my lack of privilege is worse than yours", or other similar red herrings, and we work to elevate, not drag others down kicking and screaming. That's no way to make allies. And face it, no social movement succeeds without allies.

Well maybe years from the other races will breed with white people and we'll have a planet populated entirely by mixed brown-skinned babies living in harmony,

I'm one of those children. I'm pretty much every defined race but Asian and Pacific Islander.

at work i respect polish chinese indian and middle eastern, but never arrogant white rich chavs.

the autistic "minority" is at least triple the size of the jewish minority... but fundings, budgets, land and rights don't always match the size of the minority... on the other hand we don't have as many deadly enemies who are willing to use billions to get rid of us as they do... nor do we have as many guardians who are willing to use billions to protect us...

oh well.