also, you’ve been making false assumptions/generalizations left and right here. renee was talking as a canadian and the link she gave to the “historical” practice of using woc as wetnurses referred to brazilian history. how is this “us centric” again?! if anything, i think i have a bigger problem with your conflating “us” and “american” so completely. and what is your point? yes, you’re right, there is us-privilege and us-centrism all over discussion on the internet, that’s a good and important observation generally speaking, but is it really relevant to renees’s point here? was renee denying any other privilege? no – she was pointing out one example of privilege: an important one! why does it bother you so much? no, really, why? if you actually care about the topic, it would actually be a fascinating discussion, about wetnursing as a practice at different times in different places around the globe. but are you helping to bring about such a discussion? no, you really seem to want renee to admit she has been blinded by her own privilege or something, and not to talk about the issue she wants to talk about, just to give you satisfaction. wtf

That Renee was, as privilege does, claiming that her subset was the whole and that anyone who pointed out that the rest of the set still exists was attacking her.

Seriously how many different ways from Sunday do you need to be told. If you don’t want to be called a thread derailing racist, stop acting like one. I have explained the context of this post as well as made clear the class element involved. You are not interested in discussing privilege you are interested in putting your own spin on my words and it is ignorant silencing behavior. Thankfully for you this not my space. This fact alone censors my words on the degree to which you have repeatedly offended my sensibilities. You have fouled this thread.

I am finding that close to 100% of the time when I bring up “US privilege” or “US centricism” or “American exceptionalism”, Americans complain that I’m not being fair/don’t understand/it isn’t like that/get angry because I’m dissing their worldview by pointing out that other people have a different worldview – especially when the point is that history did not begin with European colonization of the Americas.

I think this is the very first time I’ve brought it up in discussion with a woman of color (I think, because of course on the Internet YNK unless it’s said). But I am not finding Renee’s reaction any different from that of previous discussions: I’m finding myself made more uncomfortable by accusations that pointing out the underlying theme of class in all use of wetnurses is racist, and therefore prefer to drop that discussion.

I get sick of the unquestioning US-centric bias on many blogs, but what you said is right: tactics like Jesu’s are making it difficult to bring it up in a legitimate way.

I don’t want an issue that’s close to my heart to be used as a weapon/diversionary tactic against women like Renee who have valid points.