RE: Peterson's 12 Rules for Life v2.0-- actual book discussion
September 28, 2018 at 11:11 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2018 at 11:28 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Peterson intentionally uses weak and irrelevant examples in many of his comments precisely -because- he wants to argue against those items as a defense of a tradition that includes them. I'll refer you back to his "tampons, ergo the patriarchy is so-called oppression" bit I quoted from his book earlier.
This isn't rocket surgery.
White privilege -is- about whiteness. It's about an unearned package of assets that those who are identified as white have in a society where white hegemony is traditional - even in cases and places where white as an ethnicity is -not- a majority demographic. Grand, if I'm reading it right, was mocking the urge to center anxious whites, lol.
"Don't tell me I'm privileged just cuz of my skin!" - We all want to think that we got everything we have by our own pluck and daring. However, if you live in a society of white privilege...whatever you may have gotten through individual merit and accomplishment, and whatever you may lack...you also have that sack of tangibles based upon whether or not you are viewed as white...and can only lose those things by being demoted to non-white status.
Consider the white kid who puts 20 inch spinners on his monte carlo, and blasts gangster rap while cruising down the beach flipping his switches. Why does he suddenly become very white when pulled over? Why do we tell these people that if they act -like that-, they should expect to be treated as such? Why is typification of the white ideal -regardless of your actual ethnicity- likely to grant you increased access and enhanced personal and economic success?
The answer to all of these questions..is white privilege. This is why petersons comments on the matter are batshit insane. If anything, white privilege is a marxist -truth-, lol..because perceptual whiteness is being used as a privileged class. Two people, one considered white and one considered non-white..in precisely the same economic bracket, do not actually have the same bag of tangibles. I'll point out the black men pulled over in beamers...because someone..for some reason, thought they stole their own cars. Is a seemingly white hispanic fumbling around with his keys less likely to be taken for a carjacker than a jet black man doing the same?
This isn't rocket surgery.
White privilege -is- about whiteness. It's about an unearned package of assets that those who are identified as white have in a society where white hegemony is traditional - even in cases and places where white as an ethnicity is -not- a majority demographic. Grand, if I'm reading it right, was mocking the urge to center anxious whites, lol.
"Don't tell me I'm privileged just cuz of my skin!" - We all want to think that we got everything we have by our own pluck and daring. However, if you live in a society of white privilege...whatever you may have gotten through individual merit and accomplishment, and whatever you may lack...you also have that sack of tangibles based upon whether or not you are viewed as white...and can only lose those things by being demoted to non-white status.
Consider the white kid who puts 20 inch spinners on his monte carlo, and blasts gangster rap while cruising down the beach flipping his switches. Why does he suddenly become very white when pulled over? Why do we tell these people that if they act -like that-, they should expect to be treated as such? Why is typification of the white ideal -regardless of your actual ethnicity- likely to grant you increased access and enhanced personal and economic success?
The answer to all of these questions..is white privilege. This is why petersons comments on the matter are batshit insane. If anything, white privilege is a marxist -truth-, lol..because perceptual whiteness is being used as a privileged class. Two people, one considered white and one considered non-white..in precisely the same economic bracket, do not actually have the same bag of tangibles. I'll point out the black men pulled over in beamers...because someone..for some reason, thought they stole their own cars. Is a seemingly white hispanic fumbling around with his keys less likely to be taken for a carjacker than a jet black man doing the same?
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