RE: Peterson's 12 Rules for Life v2.0-- actual book discussion
September 28, 2018 at 6:12 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2018 at 6:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Again, white privilege is a list of assets that a person has by being identified as white that even their economic peers do not.
Imagine me, and black me. We both drive the same car. We both work for the same pay at the same job. We both went to the same school. We live in the same neighborhood with identical cookie cutter houses.
Is white me or black me more likely to be pulled over? Is white me or black me more likely to be fined higher? You know the answer, and you can put those two things into the list of assets that my being identified as white grants me over my otherwise identical peer. There are plenty of things that people might put on a list and call white privilege that really aren't. Notice that in the thread you found instructive...I pointed out that I wasn't getting those privileges.
Since they aren't..however, arguing against them is emphatically -not- addressing white privilege.
Imagine me, and black me. We both drive the same car. We both work for the same pay at the same job. We both went to the same school. We live in the same neighborhood with identical cookie cutter houses.
Is white me or black me more likely to be pulled over? Is white me or black me more likely to be fined higher? You know the answer, and you can put those two things into the list of assets that my being identified as white grants me over my otherwise identical peer. There are plenty of things that people might put on a list and call white privilege that really aren't. Notice that in the thread you found instructive...I pointed out that I wasn't getting those privileges.
Since they aren't..however, arguing against them is emphatically -not- addressing white privilege.
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