(October 3, 2018 at 6:34 am)Khemikal Wrote:(October 2, 2018 at 9:35 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I didn't say the first part or deny the second part.It actually doesn't..but that's just trivia as far as the US is concerned, since there is more than a smidgeon of racist sentiment wafting around.
But I would say that in a place where white people have privilege purely based on the colour of their skin with an absence of any other significant privilege like being in a majority, or wealth, it would require the race who are in the majority to be racist in favour of white people.
Quote:Otherwise why would the majority give white people privilege unless they could take it by force, pay for it or earn it in some way.White privilege -is- the lasting consequence of considerable force, and it has not always been extended to all those we might find "white" today. It's also a consequence of less destructive behaviors, like cultural and civic solidarity, albeit with a myopic view.
If the privilege is the result of superior military force and resulting military actions that result in power then that's simply a power privilege.
It's not exclusively white or caused by having white skin.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
