[wpietri]

The people who created the system are dead. But the people who benefit from the broken system are still alive. (I am one of them.) And pushing the system toward fairness is not actually punishing them.

Loss of privilege feels is definitely experienced as loss, so I can see why people would see it as punishment. Note all the rich people who cry rivers over having to pay their fair share or taxes. But reducing injustice is not punishment.

Two wrongs don't make a right. But allowing a harmful system to persevere is what continues the negative cycle.

[thomasatethose]

I struggle to make a living,and I am a human being too. just because you made it doesn't mean we all have that middle upper class male privilege. The harmful system is not pursuing equality the right way. As you phrase you views, I have Less sympathy to help women because its clear this is not about equality,and I know I'm not the only one.

[wpietri]

What I am after is equality. I just think to do that we have to acknowledge the historical situation in which a lot of the inequality is rooted. (And I'll note that I didn't have "upper class privilege", just white and male privilege.)

If you decline to have sympathy for other downtrodden people, I believe that's your problem, and I don't think blaming me will help.