(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?
Why don't you go look up the word "inherent" and get back to me? Something that is inherent is an essential characteristic -- it inheres in a person or thing. No one said that white privilege is inherent. That was simply you practicing sloppy thinking ... as usual.
White privilege is a social phenomenon here in America. It is not inherent in whites. It is a result of whites being in power in this society for centuries.
