RE: Is white privilege real? To what extent?
July 17, 2016 at 1:17 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2016 at 1:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm not labeling us that, we quantitatively -are-. Yes, a white person beaten to death has white privilege. They lived their whole life with it, despite how their life ended. Some might even say..in this context, they squandered it. Those many and varied privileges have already been described to you in this thread and there's no point in repeating them if you'll simply insist that someone, somewhere, doesn't have them. None of us has everything all the time...you know.
Your theory has a flaw...in that it's a theory to explain away a demonstrable fact. Now personally, I flaunt my privilege at every opportunity. Why wouldn't I? I'm a working class guy with poor relationships with the police...and I can -still- expect better treatment than a black man who's had good relationships with the police..I'd be a moron not to take advantage. Whenever the situation calls for it, I white the fuck up. That's white privilege. It doesn't actually make me feel guilty, because it;s not something I instill or maintain. I would feel guilty, if I spent too much time trying to deny that it existed...not because I have white guilt (I don't...I was raised to be a modern day night rider, lol, for better or for worse that part oif my upbringing has made me laughably immune to white guilt).....but because that shit is monstrously indifferent.
Your theory has a flaw...in that it's a theory to explain away a demonstrable fact. Now personally, I flaunt my privilege at every opportunity. Why wouldn't I? I'm a working class guy with poor relationships with the police...and I can -still- expect better treatment than a black man who's had good relationships with the police..I'd be a moron not to take advantage. Whenever the situation calls for it, I white the fuck up. That's white privilege. It doesn't actually make me feel guilty, because it;s not something I instill or maintain. I would feel guilty, if I spent too much time trying to deny that it existed...not because I have white guilt (I don't...I was raised to be a modern day night rider, lol, for better or for worse that part oif my upbringing has made me laughably immune to white guilt).....but because that shit is monstrously indifferent.
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