RE: Is white privilege real? To what extent?
July 15, 2016 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2016 at 11:30 am by FatAndFaithless.)
(July 15, 2016 at 11:20 am)Excited Penguin Wrote:(July 14, 2016 at 9:20 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: Maybe white privilege is real. To what extent though? Who knows?
It's a reductive way of viewing society.
There are no biological races - race is a social construct.
What about someone who considers themselves Latino or black but they pass as white. Do they have white privilege?
Do people who are known as (the highly derogatory term) white trash enjoy white privilege too?
Wealth and class are far bigger issues and confer way more privilege but the powers that be want us to fight each other on race issues to distract us and keep us from picking up our torches and pitchforks and getting rid of our elite overlords.
Race is just a social contract? I'm not sure that's quite right, let's not get unscientific here for the sake of PC.
Construct* And yeah, it pretty much is. In fact, science is what shows us it's a largely social construct. Not sure where your 'let's not get unscientific for the sake of PC' statement came from. There's no genetic basis for what we identify as 'race,' just phenotypes that societies identify and categorize based on their preferences.
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