Tafhan wrote:Nationes Pii Redivivi wrote:
The argument seems to be that you can't fully understand the experience of another race if you have never had that experience, and, therefore, have no basis on which to present to that race their own experience, rather, it makes that race silent by making having a member of the oppressing race speak for them, to them, tell them how they really are, etc.
Still, saying "well, you're white, you can't understand it." is kind of diverting the subject.
instead of actually responding to criticism. I don't know what the white person said, exactly, but it all seems like a cheap shot.
If you were making windows all your life, and I, completely inexperienced in it, came and told you you were doing it wrong, do you think I really have any grounds to speak?