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

[GrandizerII]

Okay, even in that case, my point still stands as the British would only have used machine guns well after they “earned their privilege.”

When I first saw this statement, I was like when did benny say that they "earned their privilege"? Then I went back to reread that post of his and it does seem like as if he was saying that they did earn that privilege. Anyway ...

Benny, I came here to elaborate a little on how full of shit Peterson is, not on how I can fix the problems of this world. People were in doubt when women started to fight for their rights to vote, and when folks wanted to get rid of slavery. And they had similar arguments to the one you're making.

And in today's American politics, we hear quite a bit of "pie in the sky" arguments as well regarding certain "nice ideas" for healthcare and college education and minimum wage. These arguments often (but not always) coming from folks who secretly don't want these policies to be implemented but pretend they care just to "save face". Republicans especially do this quite a lot (though some Democrats are guilty of this as well).

But again, I'm not here to provide solutions to the world's biggest problems. One ideal way is to raise awareness that privileges such as white privilege is a thing to take serious consideration of, because when enough people acknowledge that this is a thing, then enough people will acknowledge that radical change needs to occur in order to eradicate (or further minimize) racist attitudes. However, as I said before, this isn't going to be happening anytime soon, as a lot more time is needed for humankind to mature enough to get to such a point. We only just started to accept marriage equality when this was not the case at all in the past, and this took a major change in collective societal attitude for this to occur.

To Paul, you were all too willing to say black people are racist against their own kind after putting in effort to deny white privilege is a thing of significance. I just found that very curious. Then again, I still remember the exchanges you had with abaris on topics like this, so to be honest, it doesn't surprise at all that you would go out of your way to argue against the significance of white privilege and white racism (which, btw, is not the same as white privilege).

And, again, you're repeating statements that just aren't true. And I have already addressed some of them. It's just not true that white privilege doesn't play much of a role in the domain of real estate purchase/rent or in other domains. Please do some serious reading on this subject, and don't just let your biases get the better of you. It's ok to acknowledge that you are privileged because of the color of your skin, your world is not going to end if you do.