RE: Is white privilege real? To what extent?
July 17, 2016 at 4:16 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2016 at 4:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The 19 pages in the interim have been nothing but. Own your comments, or don't bother making them.
The "certain circumstance" in our discussion....is simply being born in the US, today. Under that circumstance, if you happen to be born white, you enjoy white privilege. Poor whites enjoy white privilege, rich whites enjoy white privilege. Law abiding whites enjoy white privilege, criminal whites enjoy white privilege. White privilege is ubiquitous....so long as you are white or taken to be white. Our prison stats show it, our economic stats show it, our social stats show it...there is not a single dissenting fact to the reality of white privilege.
So ask again, whether or not it's real, even -as- you concede that it is, indeed, real. Your bone of contention, is that you perceive it to be an attack on the white race. It isn't...and isn't that a deliciously skewed perspective on white privilege to begin with "hey, stop attacking the white race for all this preferential treatment!"......who cares if they -were-..it's not as if that attack will amount to much....because white privilege.
The "certain circumstance" in our discussion....is simply being born in the US, today. Under that circumstance, if you happen to be born white, you enjoy white privilege. Poor whites enjoy white privilege, rich whites enjoy white privilege. Law abiding whites enjoy white privilege, criminal whites enjoy white privilege. White privilege is ubiquitous....so long as you are white or taken to be white. Our prison stats show it, our economic stats show it, our social stats show it...there is not a single dissenting fact to the reality of white privilege.
So ask again, whether or not it's real, even -as- you concede that it is, indeed, real. Your bone of contention, is that you perceive it to be an attack on the white race. It isn't...and isn't that a deliciously skewed perspective on white privilege to begin with "hey, stop attacking the white race for all this preferential treatment!"......who cares if they -were-..it's not as if that attack will amount to much....because white privilege.
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