Is white privilege real? To what extent?

[RobertE]

You lost all credibility by going on a rant I'm afraid, whether it is justified or not. If Paul doesn't want to conform to YOUR or anybody else's standards, then that is his right and he has every damn right to express his opinion instead of being shouted down. I mean, what the hell, you want to debate yet you become like Ken Ham and all the others who will not listen to other peoples arguments.

What rant? And when did I say he couldn't express his opinion?

I have had conversation in this thread. I don't have anything against Paul and I don't hate him for disagreeing with me. If he's going to whine about me making a joke, I'm going to point out that the conversation has reached full circle more than once already so there's no reason why I can't make a joke. I have read the arguments. I find them to be lacking...mostly in having any point at all.

I'm inclined to say I don't care if you give me any credibility I don't even know who you are?

"Are you serious. This thread has gone on for a million pages. You've said nothing but "wah wah white privilege is real but I don't like it because of dictionaries and plus I don't wanna talk about it." And "All privileges matter" and other such bullshit. Also, it's at least the 3rd or 4th thread of this shit. We get it, you don't like talking about white privilege because not every single white person in the world is overly privileged, and also because Asian people have some privilege. Wanka wanka stop blaming white people for racism. What is there left to do but make jokes?"

For me, the above would be considered a rant and nothing else, just like my reply to you earlier. In essence, the message that Paul was trying to get over was that privilege is not just "white", but all skin colours. There are Afro-Caribeans who hate Africans full-stop and Africans think that the Afro-Caribeans are "privileged." All I saw Paul doing was trying to be objective whatever his personal opinions were whereas you were being subjective and thus blinded by your own attitude and own personal feelings in that "white people are privileged, full stop!!!" If you cannot argue from an objective point of view, then it is nigh on impossible to have a debate with you because you will always have some sort of bias, thus anyone who questions yourr opinion will no doubtedly be wrong simply because your own personal opinions goes into the mix. Try and be a little more open-minded....and smile like me...