(April 28, 2016 at 7:58 am)Losty Wrote: Again your rationalizing is the same as saying global warming isn't real because it snows sometimes. The advantage is that we are far less likely to have those problems. Yes white people do go to jail and white people are poor, but most of us don't or aren't. Minorities are the opposite. They're not all poor and they won't all go to jail if they do drugs but most of them are and most of them will.
But then the definition of privilege is if it applies to a specific group. Asians on average have a higher income and are inprisoned less.
I know you say Asians are white, that's the first time I've heard anyone say that. But that being the case there's Indian Americans who earn more on average than white people in America. That's not native Indians that's Americans from India, also Iranian Americans.
Also the fact that less white people are in prison on average is just a fact and doesn't necessarily give advantage to a white person. If a white person is in prison for life without the possibility of parole he has no advantage related to less white people being in prison or poverty rates among black people.
If white people have an advantage for being white it has to be pretty much universally applicable to all members of the white race.
It also overlooks the facts that there are other reasons people are poor or in prison other than the opportunities they have available or what's been granted to them. Like personal decisions, moral vales and so on. Unless you look at it from some determinist perspective and say everyone was destined to be where they are.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.