RE: Is white privilege real? To what extent?
July 14, 2016 at 9:26 pm
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2016 at 9:31 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(July 14, 2016 at 8:43 pm)paulpablo Wrote: [...]
Also if you're going to start adding the word privilege to adjectives there's a long long list of them.
Female, male, tall, short, attractive, clever, rich.
Lol... What? Name one way in which short people are privileged? One.
Sure - tall, attractive, intelligent and rich people ARE privileged and do receive special treatment in our society, even if they themselves did nothing to gain them, because those attributes appeal to our base instincts. It sucks and if - for example - bosses are caught discriminating against sexually unattractive employees (when the job itself doesn't require good looks) - they should be held accountable. What of it?
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
