(November 29, 2016 at 3:24 am)pool the great Wrote:(November 29, 2016 at 1:53 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I don't know where you got the idea that privilege is "inherent". Perhaps you could quote the post saying that?
So you're saying they are not inherent? As in people had to actually work for them? Doesn't quite make it a privilege if they had to work for it, now does it?
First of all, if - in your opinion - a privilege, that is not inherent, is not a privilege - then why do you need to use the expression "inherent privilege", as opposed to just "privilege", hmm? Nobody says "unmarried bachelor", do they. Because a bachelor, who's married is no longer a bachelor. But a privilege doesn't have to be inherent.
Secondly, of course white people had to "work for it", doofus - what do you think has been happening over the past few millennia? History happened to play out in such a way, that various members of Caucasian race dominated a whole lot of other peoples. And even if that dominance has receded a bit, since the times of colonial empires of Europe - the effects of it are still present and will be for a time to come.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw