(July 17, 2016 at 1:34 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You do understand that pointing to an example of a white person being killed by cops doesn't actually comment on whether or not white privilege exists, right?
But...since you asked......had he been black, there's a fair to middling chance that he would not have needed to be homeless and unstable...could have been out buying smokes and ended up the same.
That's not what I'm asking. I'm saying here's a homeless schizophrenic white person who was bullied and beaten to death by police.
You said that some would say he squandered his white privilege and that he still had white privilege.
I'm asking what his white privilege was as a homeless schizophrenic man beaten to death by police. Not, what is his white privilege in a hypothetical situation that he isn't homeless and schizophrenic and beaten to death by police.
Simply viewing his situation as it was, what can you point at that was his privilege or advantage over other races?
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