(July 17, 2016 at 1:17 pm)Rhythm Wrote: 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 night rider, lol).....but because that shit is monstrously indifferent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvB8-8x_y5k
You might say he squandered his white privilege by being schizophrenic, being homeless and being beaten to death by the police.
How would could it have been worse if he was black? I mean how could you know that it definitely would be worse and how could it definitely be worse than being homeless then being beaten to death?
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.
