Steven Hale
1 min readFeb 10, 2022

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I'm a white person, so that's not for me to decide. When I call out another white person for privilege, it's not because of some inherent flaw in that person that can be attributed to that person's race; it's because that person is denying the state of things as they are, and is doing so probably out of self-interest or self-protection.

Nor is my goal to "help black people." My goal is to help remedy systemic injustices, regardless of whom they're directed against. In this particular case, it's Joe Rogan's previous statements vs. the climate of racism today. Even he thinks today what he did was wrong. But until recently (when someone objected), those harmful podcasts were available online.

"Black Americans are the wealthiest black population in the world." I haven't researched this assertion (one problem when comparing people in various nations is to create a systematic definition of "wealthy"), but even if it's true and there are no semantic problems, that's not saying much about the status of Black Americans. A more proper comparison would be between wealth (or income--two different things--between black Americans and white Americans.

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Steven Hale
Steven Hale

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Music: Discovering the lost and forgotten. Politics: Exposing injustice. Screenwriting: Emotional storytelling.

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