(April 28, 2016 at 12:04 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(April 28, 2016 at 7:54 am)paulpablo Wrote: You can ignore that if you think it's irrelevant, the latter part of the post shows I don't even think it's totally relevant.
None of those "privileges" are even modestly relevant to this discussion, which is why it is a red herring. That fact ought to be noted.
(April 28, 2016 at 7:54 am)paulpablo Wrote: There's poor white people so we don't have the special right, advantage or immunity against poverty, there's white people in prison so we don't have get out of jail free cards as an entire group. Maybe there's rich celebrity white people who avoid prison, there's probably rich Arabs or Mexicans who avoid prison in some part of the world purely based on their money.
There's healthy people, so cancer isn't a worry.
There's fat people, so starvation isn't a concern.
I think you have a pretty deep misunderstanding of what white privilege is and isn't. If you have two sprinters in a 500-meter race, and spot one of them a ten-meter head start, it still doesn't guarantee that runner the victory.
In the same sense, white privilege is not proof against poverty or jail time. But being white avails me of many opportunities that help me avoid poverty and eschew a life of crime.
The whole healthy people, so health isn't a concern argument, I don't get it. What does that have to do with what I said?
Correct a runner who's given a head start may not win, and you're correct I don't understand what white privilege is.
What special rights, advantages and immunities do you have as a white person that no other group is entitled to including all other racial groups globally?
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