Peterson's 12 Rules for Life v2.0-- actual book discussion

[paulpablo]

That's the point. It's a privilege reliant on majority, wealth and dependant on which society you live in yet is named a white privilage to see people of your race in the media and to be able to live where you want.

It's called white privilege because it directly maps to ethnicity...even in countries and neighborhoods where that ethnicity is not the majority.  Calling it majority privilege won't change anything about it, doesn't adequately describe it, and by any name you choose to call it..it will remain problematic.

In relation to what Jordan Peterson was talking about, an article which describes white privilege though examples of living where you want and seeing people on tv who are the same race as you, majority privilege and wealth privilege perfectly relates to that privilege.

Families, or people who can afford to buy houses where they want. there might be a majority of white people, less black people, but they will all be rich people.  Wealth privilege therefore describes the privilege of living in the house of your choice better than white privilege. 

I agree that calling it wealth privilege won't change anything about it.

Being able to afford to move to a nicer house is more dependent on the money you have rather than your race.

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I've seen him argue against a specific article on white privilege. The article claimed that being able to see your race represented in the media a lot is a white privilege, his counterargument was that the majority race is usually represented most in the media. The article also states that being able to live where you want is a white privilege, and the counterargument to that is that it's actually more important how much money you have rather than what race you are as to where you can live.

In other words, don't make it about the white man's whiteness! It has to be those other things.

In relation to what Jordan Peterson was talking about, it is.