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People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

People often call fighting discrimination being ‘PC’ because they don’t want their own unearned privileges challenged.
– DaShanne Stokes

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  1. Those with unearned privileges often spin things as ‘political correctness’ to further silence those they wish to oppress. – DaShanne Stokes
  2. Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges. – DaShanne Stokes
  3. Political correctness’ as ‘over-sensitivity’ is code for saying the privileged shouldn’t have their unearned privileges questioned. – DaShanne Stokes
  4. Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it’s ‘tradition. – DaShanne Stokes
  5. Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all. – DaShanne Stokes
  6. People often call fighting racism being ‘PC’ when they don’t want to confront their own prejudice – DaShanne Stokes
  7. Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don’t. – DaShanne Stokes
  8. Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another. – TaNehisi Coates
  9. You’re not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you’ve always had. – DaShanne Stokes
  10. Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged. – DaShanne Stokes
  11. Discrimination does not ‘make America great.’ It makes America weak. – DaShanne Stokes
  12. Men think they like to be challenged. The truth is, they only like to be challenged if they win. – Karen Hawkins
  13. You’re sexist. I’m so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination. – Gillian Flynn
  14. Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you choose for yourself, the other God chose for you. – Habeeb Akande
  15. Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you chose for yourself, the other God chose for you. – Habeeb Akande
  16. Touch not the fighting-dog without a glove.Give me a fighting-dog and I come alive.Fighting-dogs always meant more to Tom Mitchell than people. – John Duncan
  17. The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that’s the minute bigotry wins. – DaShanne Stokes
  18. If you’d combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are. – DaShanne Stokes
  19. What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day. – Steve Goodier
  20. Bigots often like to say they’re the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the ‘pity the privileged’ routine. – DaShanne Stokes
  21. Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate. – DaShanne Stokes
  22. Saying something is ‘politically correct’ is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed. – DaShanne Stokes
  23. Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people. – DaShanne Stokes
  24. On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth. – Criss Jami
  25. The power of love is that it sees all people. – DaShanne Stokes
  26. People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it’s not being in loving homes that hurts children most. – DaShanne Stokes
  27. People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible. – DaShanne Stokes
  28. One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good. – DaShanne Stokes
  29. No matter their party, people with a conflict of interest should be banned from the Electoral College. – DaShanne Stokes
  30. Today’s ‘religious freedom’ policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a co-optation of religion that affects us all. – DaShanne Stokes
  31. Privilege doesn’t just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity. – DaShanne Stokes
  32. An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people. – DaShanne Stokes
  33. It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others. – DaShanne Stokes
  34. It’s illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections. – DaShanne Stokes
  35. When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged. – Thomas Gilovich
  36. Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.Those fighting to keep those people out – are. – Jon Stewart
  37. Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn’t know what he was doing. – Kurt Eichenwald
  38. Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it? – Mark Twain
  39. Never be challenged by the number of people you have but by the impact the number of people can make. – Kabelo Mabona
  40. Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard. – DaShanne Stokes

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