RE: Correcting grammar is racist.
April 29, 2016 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2016 at 5:03 pm by paulpablo.)
(April 29, 2016 at 4:49 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: *yawn*
Yes, I know your problem is with the allegedly exclusive connotation of "privilege".
You still don't seem to understand that one group's successful integration doesn't remove the advantages enjoyed by white folk in America ... and quite frankly, I don't think you really want to; so I'll leave you to your obtuse pedantry and find a discussion more worth my time.
It's not an alleged connotation of exclusivity, it's the dictionary definition of the word privilege coupled with the fact that the full phrase is white privileged which definitely implies an exclusivity to whites people.
I'm not being pedantic, you don't even have to use the word privilege as it defines it in the dictionary, but if you use the term white privilege that implies an exclusivity to whites.
None of the advantages mentioned in this thread have been exclusively white privileges.
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