RE: Peterson's 12 Rules for Life v2.0-- actual book discussion
October 3, 2018 at 9:28 am
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2018 at 9:36 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 3, 2018 at 8:36 am)paulpablo Wrote: 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.While that was once the case, it certainly isn't so any more, unless you count our police as a military force. It doesn't take a battalion of infantry to maintain privilege anymore than it takes an army of calorie burning racists.
Quote:It's not exclusively white or caused by having white skin.
The type of privilege being discussed by the term "white privilege" most certainly is, and demonstrably exists. Until you can get past this anxious hurdle you will not be able to cogently comment on -that- privilege. It is a bag of tangible assets, conferred by identification as white.
Lay that aside for a moment, though. Let's run with this "oh, that's just some other so and so". So what if it were? If that privilege existed, for example..as a consequence of superior military force? Would it somehow reduce or diminish it's undesirability if there were guys with armbands running up and down the streets? No, OFC not.
Is Simply Power Privilege™...somehow.....different..in a society where power correlates directly to perceived ethnicity? The same question repeats itself with Simply Wealth Privilege™. Simply Majority Privilege™. etc etc etc.
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