You know nothing about my race/ethnicity, sex/gender identity, sexuality, background, and…

Your writing is from a perspective of white male privilege that you were born into. You did nothing to earn that privilege. You may have earn or acquired more privilege from education and experience and there is nothing wrong with that. But it’s that same privilege that blinds you. You can’t see or recognize that women and non whites are not born with the same privilege. Some acquire privilege like you did but you still have more.

You must know that the oppressed, the discriminated, the marginalized can only punch up when…

Jas Martinez

Joe Garza

1 min readMar 23, 2020

You know nothing about my race/ethnicity, sex/gender identity, sexuality, background, and upbringing, and yet you still make all of these assumptions about me, after only reading one article.

You didn’t even bother to ask me — you just judged me without any additional knowledge of me. That’s the actual definition of prejudice. You know that, right?

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